Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 166

Keegan slid the bolt across the door with a heavy clank, his face contorted with pain as he spoke to her, “Whitney, I can’t put you in danger anymore. I head out on my own. It’s one thing for the cops to catch me, but you can’t be seen. You stay hidden here until I’m in the police station, then, you can come out and clear your name!”

“Uncle, let me out!” Whitney banged on the door, her cries for help falling into the void.

She moved to the window and saw her uncle’s staggering retreat, her heart piercing with pain like a needle had just pricked it

Her uncle, stubborn and headstrong, thought this would save her. But Whitney feared that after she escaped from the villa last night, she was most likely already an accomplice.

“Uncle! I need to get out now!” Whitney, frantic and pale, pounded the door frame with desperation.

But in the secluded little cottage, no one could hear her screams.

It was not until two days later that a passerby finally freed her. Whitney, clutching her stomach and barely hanging on, flagged down a car from the roadside.

Three days later, before his detention was up, Ludwik was released from the police station.

Because a tragedy had occurred.

Sitting in the car, his long legs cold, he could not comprehend what Nolan was saying nor grasp Ashton’s words.

His mind was a blank slate, hallucinations filling the silence.

The tall, imposing figure of a man seemed so fragile now as he followed Nolan into the ICU.

A deep, icy terror settled in the quiet depths of his eyes.

There were two beds in the room.

One for his mother.

One for Elaine.

stood there, watching the doctor’s lips move, unable to catch the words, his handsome, expressionless face twisted

weakly, her sobs frail and miserable, “It’s all my fault. I

are you talking about? You just donated a kidney to Natalie!” Ashton said with a heart full

were failing fast. This young lady’s emergency kidney donation saved her life, but she’s in a deep coma now, one–third of her brain dead, in a vegetative state.” Ludwik looked at his mother, her frail,

had teased him, calling him a brat. He cherished and loved this person more than anyone,

His mother.

surged

rushed over

gestured for him to stop, his jaw clenched,

underworld as he said,

and Parker, his hand trembling with a cigarette,

flowed from Elaine’s eyes as she cried, “I can’t believe it was Whitney too. She and her uncle… they took Natalie, knowing how frail she was ”

gaze shifted to

I immediately took the police to pursue them, hoping it was a misunderstanding, just wanting to find Natalie quickly, not

and with the quarrel she had with you, she did not care for treatment. In her rush, Natalie was taken, and

as if he had plunged into a bottomless ice cellar

much! They used that to abduct her in her most vulnerable

“And Whitney?”

he was, the more Parker’s

that you kidnapped his daughter, and he wanted to destroy you both.

possibility that she had gone

tight. He bowed his head, gently holding his mother’s hand with a tenderness that cast a devilish shadow

Elaine’s sudden coughing fit erupted, and she spat out a trace

“You just had kidney

his gaze landing on her as he rose

him weakly, the monitor alarms blaring as Ashton hurried

in fear, her voice pitiful, “Ludwik, I’m not feeling well. I don’t think

and the others gradually left