Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 116

Castor looked like someone had just accused him of a crime he did not commit. He pulled out his phone with a scowl and said, “The afternoon’s sting operation is all over the news, man. It was Bryce who saved Madam. She was leaning on him as they walked into the hospital. They looked like the perfect couple–so many bystanders took pictures thinking they were hitched. Look, Elaine, I’ve got the snapshots right here, why won’t you let me talk about it.”

“What snapshots?” As Elaine had expected, Ludwik questioned coldly.

Asly smile curled at the corners of her mouth.

Castor glanced at Elaine and immediately handed over the phone, “Boss, some coworkers stumbled upon the scene and sent them to me, asking if she was Madam…”

Ludwik stared at the photos. Anxious and caring, Whitney was helping Bryce with the hospital admission and fees, her attentiveness evident in every gesture.

A sneer curled his lips, and a chill emanated from his very being.

Elaine looked down, narrowing her eyes, waiting for Ludwik to explode upon seeing the photos.

She pretended to glance at the photograph and advised, “Bro, please, don’t get mad. At least hear Whitney out… And these photos can’t hit the news. Your father can’t know about this. He already dislikes Whitney, so if he gets the wrong idea, it could mean trouble for you…”

She seemed thoughtful and considerate, yet her mention of Ludwik’s father, Kaden Lippert, was sure to fuel Ludwik’s fire.

Whitney had really done it this time, getting tangled up with Bryce and falling into her trap. She would ‘make good use‘ of this situation.

Whitney listened to every word in the kitchen. Her lips curled into a frosty smile.

So, this was Elaine’s usual trick–sweet talk with a poison pill, making others do the dirty work while keeping her hands clean. No wonder there was never any dirt on her.

One played the good cop, the other the bad.

Elaine could feel the cold rage spreading from Ludwik already

Suddenly, Ludwik tossed aside the phone. His handsome face showed no sign of surprise or fury, just a cold voice stating. “I already know about it.”

Elaine was utterly stunned.

Ludwik’s lips twisted into a cold smirk. “Whitney came clean herself. To cheer me up, she even canceled the Skye Gem and the Lutz Group’s partnership”

flickered in

How could this

then, a delicate cry

jumped. “Madam, did the oil

out here,” Ludwik’s heart was already in the kitchen, his brows furrowed in concern. Whitney had staged the little accident with the oil. It was her cue to enter the scene. She emerged from the kitchen,

kitchen, overhearing her sowing discord. Not that it mattered;

remembered the thugs and Monica’s

Chapter 116

grand. Such a horrifying

turn to fight back.

the man,

Ludwik frowned. “Let

finger, expecting him to just look at it.

mouth, unabashed by the onlookers, and chided her in a deep voice, “You’re such a klutz. I wonder how our kids would turn

presence, she quickly

of her emotions, could not hide the stiffness on her face.

and the stiff

continue.

an inward

on Whitney. This woman had grown

confessing proactively–Whitney seemed to have changed

Elaine realized she had been outplayed; the pit she had

into it.

there was nothing between Whitney and Bryce. You

spoke sweetly, trying to win

point. If they end up in the news and your family

Elaine was silent.

look. “Delete them! Keep an eye out, both of you. We don’t want this nonsense

y delete th

photos. She and Castor had no choice but to

glance before she and Castor quickly left.

you were about to leak those pictures to Kaden. The Lippert family has never been fond of Whitney, and Kaden would’ve dealt with her himself, but