Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 141

Next to Banyan City International Hotel stood the hospital.

Whitney sat vigil in the hospital room, reaching out to check her uncle’s pulse when suddenly her fingers were gripped tightly, her uncle’s nails scraping blood from her skin.

Startled, Whitney turned to see her uncle’s eyes flutter open.

Keegan looked at her with a mixture of pain and madness, demanding, “Whitney, why did you marry Ludwik?! He’s our nemesis! How could you marry him?” His coughs grew into a fit as he tried to rise, his words laced with desolation.

Whitney stiffened, as if unable to comprehend.

Her mind buzzed as she stared into her uncle’s reddened eyes, his face contorted with pain. She denied his accusations, “Uncle, what are you talking about? He’s not Ludwik.”

She held his hand, trying to calm him, “You must be mistaken. L had a scar on his face–I saw it with my own

eyes.”

Keegan shook off her hand violently, his anger distorting his face. He turned and rummaged through his bag, pulling out a fractured silver mask and thrusting it into Whitney’s hands, “Why do I recognize him? Because of this silver mask! Familiar, isn’t it–the one he was wearing!”

Whitney shuddered at the sight of the jagged half–mask.

Keegan spat hatefully, “Foolish girl, do you know that when your mom and grandpa died in that car, I ran to save them and saw this mask stabbed into your grandpa’s heart? His last word was ‘Ludwik‘!

He was just twenty ten years ago, already hiring hitmen. I didn’t know the car was rigged. When I tried to move my sister and father, the car exploded. My leg, my face, my body…”

Keegan clutched his scarred face, trembling.

The pain from his amputated right leg seemed to surge back, suffocating him.

Seeing him struggle to breathe, Whitney quickly pressed his philtrum to ease hiş distress.

And wasn’t the Valentine family implicated in my mother and grandfather’s deaths?

was a mess. Ludwik’s ambition knew no bounds. How else could he build today’s Fortune 100 company? You don’t

trying to rise from the bed. With only one leg, he immediately fell to the floor. Pity flashed in Whitney’s eyes, her heart heavy. She couldn’t resist, “Uncle, please calm down. I’ll go.” Whitney’s mind was numbed. She was now on a plane

to the hospital, standing at a

Elaine’s room, beside Ashton stood a tall man in an unchanged black suit. Whitney’s shaky gaze traveled up to his handsome face, It was indeed

face to

L’s face at Alpine

Had he gone to great lengths to

felt like a fool.

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the most esteemed Mr. Lippert of the Lippert family in Banyan City!

feared, he controlled the economic lifeline of Banyan City.

her the truth! “He is Ludwik, Whitney. He’s been wearing a mask all along and deceiving you. But

Whitney felt she

mask once she fell

Why?

be able to leave him, and their child would already be

into misery, her eyes misting as she looked up, “Uncle, are you certain about the cause of my mother and grandfather’s deaths? Maybe it

a habit of wearing masks–a fact known among Banyan

through

attempted to compose himself, massaging his aching brow, “You were young ten years ago,

Banyan City. She was pregnant with you, hiding from

jewelry company. He had a map of the Surelia District diamond mines–a map that drove Ludwik

as she remembered

watched the Imperial Gem Corporation soar to new heights, powered by

in anguish. “The Valentine family? They’re just pawns manipulated by Ludwik’s