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.

his coat, his face emanating

fury?” Natalie called

had gone to 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

cast a look on the phone’s screen. Outside an exclusive Presidential

expression/a mix of cold fury and

suite number was

drown his sorrows, staggering drunk right into the suite but forgetting to close

Whitney’s expression froze.

business room at the Imperial Garden Bar, something Whitney had

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renched her fats and began to undress,

tongue, her expression complex. “You didn’t

narrowed her eyes. For her to know about this room, it’s no small feat. With the Valentine family news out today it must have been a spur

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

the Golden Hue Bar just the other day Roselyn’s path to wealth crumbled, and she’s got it out for Monica now. But I didn’t expect

your dad. With Roselyn doing

laugh. “What kind of father he is to see his own daughter suffer? Tiana, I’m starting to doubt that whether he’s

same lines. “Even if there’s something off, they’re never going to tell

Once I’ve taken down the Valentines

She’s sharpened her own knife, and the

better this way. Let them handle their own mess!” Tiana laughed,

to Whitney, Simon was also in one of the private lounges at the Imperial

leaking out, she was recognized

to find Simon but there he was, drunk and alone, looking like a

women beside him, Monica hurried over. Her voice was

of his phone–taken before her abduction, Whitney was smiling and gazing at Simon with

She pinched Simon’s arm hard. “Simon! You still have her

his gaze still fixed on Whitney’s image. He remembered her dazzling at the awards ceremony, completely

name? Could it be that the masked man who rescued her that day was

couldn’t believe it, regret gnawing at him. Why had he ever given up on Whitney for

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