Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 82

Parker decided to drop by unannounced in the suburban club to check on his property. His long strides carried him leisurely down the path, his rnind barely registering the task Ludwik had mentioned earlier.

However, as he passed a certain private lounge, a woman’s cry echoed from within, a sound oddly familiar.

The refined glint behind his rimless glasses sharpened with curiosity.

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What a coincidence, he mused.

Parker signaled to his men with a smirk that did not quite reach his eyes.

With a forceful kick, the door was flung open.

The dimly lit interior was spacious. Parker sauntered in, pulling back the curtains to reveal a chaotic scene on the bed, his eyes flashing coldly. He glanced at the scantily clad woman screaming for help, then leisurely removed his suit jacket and tossed it down at her.

“Pa–Parker.” Tiana looked up, her small face a mask of terror and confusion.

Parker’s men quickly overpowered the three thugs.

His cigarette dangled from his lips as he strolled over and planted his foot on the waistband of one scoundrel’s jeans. The cultured outline of his face, accentuated by his glasses, contrasted with the sinister aura emanating from beneath those lenses.

Tiana watched as his cigarette slowly lowered, lighting the crotch of the three men on fire, his foot pinning them down as they began to wail in agony.

Meanwhile, he did not even flinch the slightest.

Parker finally lifted his foot only when the smell of singed cloth filled the air.

Tiana was paralyzed with shock, the threat she had faced moments before from almost getting raped paling in comparison to the dread now gripping her.

Staring at the man’s sophisticated profile, she trembled. Was this man a demon?

The thugs, their jeans in tatters, crawled away in terror.

Parker stood up, his hand nonchalantly pocketed, and glanced at the bed. Frowning, he scolded his men, “Turn around.”

moment, he realized that the girl on the bed seemed

scared? He had not even shown a fraction

long are you going to stare?

a shiver. Kid? What did he mean

collarbone and quickly covered herself with a scream of indignation. “Parker, you saved me, but how can you be

made her

even realize she was revealing

She would have given him a piece of her mind if she were not

his car. She seemed off, and he realized

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a kitten, inching

The driver chuckled.

build made a comforting cradle for Tiana, and she seemed too comfortable to even care about the blood trickling down her

brow. “Could you

always been calm even in the face of storms, suddenly stiffened, his expression

woman away, convinced her shamelessness had led

“Drive faster!”

he left Tiana at the hospital and did not look

received

her eyes swiftly to find a nurse by her bedside, probably called in by the doctor.

the same hospital as her. Thus, Whitney rushed to the fifth floor of the

room’s entrance, Simon was already there, his voice filled with sympathy. “Take it

into the room.

an IV, her medication wearing

gone

fell across her face. She yanked her

Whitney’s eyes

you were aware of their affair. Why did you keep it from me? You

was stunned for a moment. “She found out?” She

“Tiana, I didn’t do it on purpose. I was just worried you

Gunner and Stelle having sex? My heart shattered into pieces! I even ended up almost being defiled by them! Whitney, I’m so disappointed in you…” Tiana was too

heart pierced by the

Whitney. “Stop saying such things. Whitney was beaten in jail, and

Whitney’s frailty and the bruises peeking under her

and pain collided within her,