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.

“It can’t be. L isn’t Ludwik. And wasn’t the Valentine family implicated in my mother

ambition knew no bounds. How else

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

as she followed Keegan to the hospital, standing at

Elaine’s room, beside Ashton stood a tall man in an unchanged black suit. Whitney’s shaky gaze traveled

face to remember for eons.

L’s face at Alpine Springs Resort were gone.

he gone to great

felt like a

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most esteemed Mr. Lippert of the Lippert family in Banyan

he controlled the

have everyone conceal his identity. With a single command, no one dared tell her the truth! “He is Ludwik, Whitney. He’s been wearing a mask all along and

Whitney felt she

he would only remove the mask once she fell in love

Why?

then, even if she knew everything, she wouldn’t be able to leave him, and

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

a child due to his looks, Ludwik had a habit of wearing

car sped through the

“You were young ten years ago, unaware of many things.”

medical professional, ousted unfairly by rivals. He brought your mom here to Banyan City. She was pregnant with you, hiding from your birth father in

He had a map of the Surelia District diamond mines–a

through Whitney as she remembered him claiming to be

passed away, I fled overseas. I watched the Imperial Gem Corporation soar to new heights, powered by the mining operations in Surelia

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