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

He had not even

amused look, Parker said, “Kid, how long are you going to stare? I gave

reality with a shiver.

quickly covered herself with a scream of indignation. “Parker, you saved

her chest

was revealing her lace? He suppressed a snicker. “Quite a

have given him a piece of her mind if she

Parker scooped her up with a look of disgust and carried her out to his car. She seemed

Chapter 82

the car, she clung to him like a kitten, inching closer until she shamelessly

The driver chuckled.

build made a comforting cradle for Tiana, and

“Could

who had always been calm even in the face of storms,

glare, he pushed the intrusive woman away, convinced her

“Drive faster!”

later, he left Tiana at the hospital

dawn approached, Whitney received a call

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

in the same hospital as her. Thus,

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

burst into the

her medication wearing off, opened

the sight. What had Tiana gone through? She grabbed Tiana’s

slowly dawned on Tiana, and a chill fell across

wrong, Tiana?” Whitney’s eyes

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

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

didn’t do it on

felt when I saw 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 infuriated even to realize how hurtful

heart pierced by

upsetting Whitney. “Stop saying such things. Whitney was beaten in jail, and she’s been searching for you

frailty and the bruises peeking under

pain collided within her, and her