Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 120

“What are you doing here?” Monica’s voice was a mix of hatred and fear as she saw Whitney standing at the door. The once robust figure had withered away after a long recovery from a broken rib and leg.

Ever since that scuffle with her husband, she had grown wary of Whitney.

Whitney lifted her eyebrows and smirked, “Step outside for a second. We need to talk.”

“You’re not cooking up some scheme, are you?” Monica could not help but feel suspicious.

Whitney dangled the bait. “It’s about your shares in Skye Gem. Don’t you care about that anymore?”

That got Monica’s attention. Clenching her jaw with resentment, she followed Whitney out of the room.

Whitney glanced upwards, plotting her next move. Monica’s room was on the fourth floor, orthopedics, while L’s private suite was on the eighth. It was about time Elaine would be making an appearance.

She led Monica upstairs, making her way to the sixth floor. At the elevator, Whitney excused herself to take a call, leaving Monica to wait.

As the elevator door opened, Monica caught a glimpse of Elaine inside.

The news had just broken that Monica’s spot in the jewelry competition semifinals was in jeopardy.

Desperation had set in, and although her mother had tried to reach out to Elaine, she would not give them the time of day.

Now, unexpectedly facing Elaine, Monica mustered her courage and stepped into the elevator.

Elaine’s eyes held a warning.

When the elevator reached the ground floor, Elaine strode out quickly, with Monica hot on her heels.

paused, her cold gaze

began tentatively. “The competition is going to disqualify me! You promised you’d

a word, Elaine looked around cautiously and

and that was all she needed

Elaine left quickly

realized Whitney was nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, Whitney was already retrieving the security footage

prove she’s behind any of this to Mr. L, and Monica’s words alone aren’t enough to show Elaine was the one who instructed Monica

to show the connection between Elaine and Monica. She had ways to make Monica

round up some muscle for me. I have

and the other to snatch Yvonne from the Valentine Mansion. The mother and daughter were taken aback by their sudden kidnapping, ending up in a desolate warehouse where they faced a brutal interrogation. Whitney had her thugs

at the hospital, which

family of Banyan City, and

Overwhelmed by their predicament, Yvonne snatched the phone and dialed a number, which Tiana intercepted, allowing the call to

into the phone, “Elaine, why are you doing this to us?”

line. “Just because you’re the heiress from Emperor City doesn’t mean we’re at your mercy. You came to us with Kyler, promising to help Monica in the competition, to take down Whitney. You used the Lutz family, instructed Monica to get

Whitney had

do we do with them now?” Tiana asked.

muscle reveal the truth–it was not Elaine who kidnapped them,”

been deceived and possibly snitch to Elaine?” Tiana was puzzled. Whitney merely smiled. “If they snitch, even

could not grasp Whitney’s strategy, but she followed along as Whitney called Valerie, inquiring about Elaine’s expertise in

confirmed that Elaine had a background in jewelry design and traditional medicine. After moving to Banyan City, Elaine helped her beloved manage his business, quickly rising to

was quite

‘design draft‘ to Tiana, “Check this out. Elaine would not use her work. She must have bought these designs; there will be

at Felix’s room to discuss recent developments in United Realty Corporation, especially the worker’s death

noticed Whitney and Felix talking. “What

to the room, their conversation hidden, their plans

confronted Whitney. “Really? Chatting up some other guy

momentarily

be so petty.