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.

unable to catch the words, his handsome, expressionless face twisted with impatience. “What are

her eyes weakly, her sobs frail and miserable, “It’s all my fault. I couldn’t rescue Natalie in time from Whitney, and now she’s…

You just donated a kidney to Natalie!” Ashton

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, sickly face, her

him a brat. He cherished and loved this person more than anyone, the woman who had

His mother.

of blood surged to

rushed over

gestured for him to stop, his jaw clenched, his eyelashes trembling

as cold as the underworld as he said, “Elaine, who did you

shivered, and Parker, his hand trembling with a cigarette, both

she cried, “I can’t believe it was Whitney too. She and her uncle… they took Natalie, knowing

shifted to Parker

to pursue them, hoping it was a misunderstanding, just wanting to find Natalie

plotted this whole thing Natalie received a call from him saying Whitney was about to have a miscarriage, and with the quarrel she had with you, she did not care for treatment. In her rush, Natalie was taken, and I was thrown from the car…

confession, Ludwik’s eyes fell, feeling as if

grandson so much! They used that to abduct her in her most vulnerable state.

“And

he was, the more

frowned, struggling “I caught Keegan at the foot of the mountain the next day. He said you were targeting Skye Gem, that you kidnapped his daughter, and he wanted to destroy

possibility that she had gone into hiding out of fear of

He bowed his head, gently holding his mother’s hand with a tenderness that

coughing fit erupted, and she spat out

had kidney surgery. You

looked up, his gaze landing on her as he rose to his feet.

called him weakly, the monitor alarms blaring as

pitiful, “Ludwik, I’m not feeling well. I don’t think I’ll make it,

the others gradually