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.

his handsome, expressionless face twisted with impatience. “What are

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

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

This young lady’s emergency kidney donation saved her

He cherished and loved this person more than

His mother.

of blood surged to

rushed

him to stop, his jaw clenched, his

underworld as he said, “Elaine, who did you say kidnapped my

in the air, Holan shivered, and Parker, his hand trembling with a cigarette, both

too. She and

shifted to

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

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… Taryn wept beside Natalie’s

as if he had plunged into a

her grandson so much! They used that to

asked, “And

calmer he was, the more Parker’s fingers

the mountain the next day. He said you were targeting Skye Gem, that you kidnapped his daughter, and he wanted to destroy you both. Whitney wasn’t with him, and Keegan would not divulge her whereabouts…”

that she had gone

gently holding his mother’s hand with a tenderness that cast a devilish shadow

sudden coughing fit erupted, and she

“You just had kidney surgery. You shouldn’t

on her as he rose to

monitor alarms blaring as Ashton hurried to summon

well. I don’t think I’ll make it, and there

the others gradually left