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.

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

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… she’s

kidney to Natalie!” Ashton said

your mother was kidnapped and barely breathing when she arrived at the hospital. Her kidneys were failing fast. This young lady’s emergency kidney donation saved her life,

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

His mother.

blood surged to his

rushed

his jaw

the underworld as he said, “Elaine, who

and Parker, his hand trembling

too.

gaze shifted to

voice hoarse, “Taryn alerted us to the emergency. I immediately took the police to pursue them,

him saying Whitney was about to have a miscarriage, and with the quarrel she had with you, she did not

Taryn’s confession, Ludwik’s eyes fell, feeling as if he

They used that to abduct her in her most vulnerable

asked, “And Whitney?”

was, the more

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

possibility that she had gone into hiding out

shut tight. He bowed his head, gently holding his mother’s

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

had kidney surgery. You shouldn’t be talking”

looked up, his gaze landing on her as he

alarms blaring as Ashton hurried to

her voice pitiful, “Ludwik, I’m not feeling well. I don’t think I’ll make it, and there are things

and the others gradually left the