Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 104

“You can’t…” Whitney tried to resist, only to realize she had provoked a wrathful god.

The man’s hands, veins bulging with barely controlled fury, pinned her against the car window without saying a word. His lips crushed against hers without mercy, almost devouring her in his frenzied assault.

Whitney’s delicate lips quickly turned red as blood.

Ludwik’s thoughts raced to her at the foot of the bed, Bryce dressing her, her lips stained with blood, seductive as a succubus drawing the life from some man.

His rage grew wilder, his kisses trailing down to the nape of her milky–white neck, the lingering scent driving him to madness as he sought to tear away and claim what he saw as his.

Pressed against the edge of the car, the vehicle still moving, Whitney’s head knocked against the window while the man, like a lion, was beyond reason, his eyes darkening further as he watched her tears fall one by one beneath his savage kisses. He scoffed at her, ‘Don’t give me that mournful look. You weren’t like this with Bryce.

His voice was a low growl filled with cold fury.

Whitney had no strength left to fight, her small hands clutching pitifully at his shirt, trying to push him away, but only tears remained.

He zipped up the back of her dress as they arrived at the villa.

Ludwik did not say a word, carrying her out of the car. She did not cooperate, so he dragged her in, taking care

not to harm the child she carried.

He dragged her to the second–floor bedroom, his gaze like the frost of a winter night as he looked at her and said icily, “It seems you don’t understand. If I want to control someone, it’s easy. From now on, forget your job and career. Just stay at home and have this kid!”

He turned and ordered Taryn, his voice harsh. “This woman is restless. Keep an eye on her. Take her phone. My

mother must not find out!”

Whitney lay on the bed like a rag doll, her chest and neck stinging. It took a while before she could gather her

senses.

He was grounding her!

“What right do you have to treat me this way, you bastard? Have you gone mad?” She sprang from the bed, reaching for the door.

But Taryn sighed and locked it promptly.

like she was going insane. What kind of devil had she entered into a sham marriage with and then had an actual relationship with?

the

got out, he heard Ludwik’s chilling voice instructing the servants, “Call the surgeon over.

they were to examine was obvious.

sighed, facing Ludwik’s impenetrable, somber visage. The faint sound of a woman’s soft crying and knocking on the door could

doing? You can’t keep someone locked

sweep, “Is there anything I can’t do?”

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caught the tiredness behind his deep frown, not daring

wanted to destroy her. Thus, he abruptly got into his car and said, “Check

save her, and Bryce did, just by giving her a coat…” Nolan thought. However, he knew

car

the villa’s second floor. It was like a little prison cell. “Whitney, oh Whitney, if

follow Ludwik, forced into a

inhaled, not affecting the blood, and

–

injuries save for her bruised

applied a cooling ointment, advising her

Whitney remained silent, eventually drifting off into a troubled sleep.

her first instinct was to reach for her phone, only to remember that the bastard

1. it.

he cutting her off

on the verge of

the victim, almost defiled, yet he was grounding

to still have such

also his extreme coldness. This

–

when he was in a good mood. She must have been out of her

a man.

pleaded, “Madam, I’m sorry, but you can’t leave the bedroom. Please eat

“I’ll starve myself.”

OFFE

“Sir just called. He wants a report on your meals three times a day. Please don’t make it hard for us. And the baby’s over three months now; you can’t starve it.”

collapsed against

fond of the baby; she

from work when Skye Gem had