Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 54

Chapter 54

Whitney’s face flushed as she pushed her away, but Tiana was already on to the next topic. Tve set everything up at the Imperial Garden Bar. Loads of our old classmates and friends have been ringing up asking about you Sure, there are some fair–weather friends in the mix, but there are a few genuine ones too. Whitney, you’ve got to start building your network.”

Whitney knew what she meant. If she was going to make a comeback in Banyan City, she needed a circle that would welcome her back in.

Before Whitney could hesitate, Tiana grabbed the steering wheel and they were on their way to the pub.

Back at the villa, it wasn’t even seven o’clock.

Taryn watched in surprise as the man came home, suited and booted with his assistant in tow.

“My boy?” Natalie rushed over, her lips pursed in astonishment. “You’ve been too busy to come home these past few days, and now you’re back so early?”

Ludwik’s gaze swept the living room, searching.

Felix asked with a smile, “Madam, where’s Whitney? She said she’d be back early today to-”

The man shot him a look.

He sank arrogantly into the sofa and waited. He saw neither the woman who had promised to serve him nor any sign of good news.

“Where is she?”

“Whitney? She hasn’t come back yet,” the old lady said, puzzled.

Taryn chimed in, “She had sent a text. She said she’s out having fun.”

Felix’s smile twitched awkwardly on his face.

Ludwik’s icy glare swept over him.

Felix swiftly made his exit.

coat, his face emanating a chill.

a fury?” Natalie called after

the restroom and was not yet back. Whitney was about to go check on her when Tiana raced back with an odd look on her

phone’s screen. Outside an exclusive Presidential Suite, the figure of Roselyn was

red, her expression/a

suite number

eyebrow. “Preston had came here to drown his sorrows, staggering drunk right into

Whitney’s expression froze.

Preston’s regular business room at the Imperial Garden Bar, something Whitney had known from

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undress, she stepped inside and slammed the

expression complex. “You didn’t see that

about this room, it’s no small feat. With the Valentine family news out today it must

I mean, if it was me, I couldn’t, not with someone older than my dad, even if

out of her at the Golden Hue Bar just the other day

your dad. With Roselyn doing this, you’re not going

kind of father he is to see his own daughter suffer? Tiana, I’m

lines. “Even if there’s something off, they’re

first. Once I’ve

have to worry about undermining Roselyn now. She’s sharpened her own knife, and the

Tiana laughed, imagining

one of

name still trending online, and more scandals about her leaking out,

struggled to find Simon but there he was, drunk

hurried over. Her voice was sweetened

speak, she saw a photo of Whitney on the screen of his phone–taken before her abduction, Whitney was smiling and

heart clouded over instantly. She pinched Simon’s arm hard. “Simon! You still

eyes but ignored Monica, his gaze still fixed on Whitney’s image. He remembered her dazzling at the awards ceremony,

clearing her name? Could it be that the masked man

regret gnawing at him. Why had he ever given up on Whitney for a

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