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.

lips move, unable to catch the words, his handsome, expressionless

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

doctor’s words seemed to penetrate Ludwik’s mind. “Mr. Lippert, 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, 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,

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

His mother.

blood surged to his throat.

Holan rushed

stop, his jaw

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

in the air, Holan shivered, and Parker, his

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

gaze shifted to

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

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

fell, feeling as if he had plunged into a bottomless ice

her grandson so much! They used that to

“And

he was, the more Parker’s

the mountain the next day. He said you were targeting Skye Gem, that

she had gone into hiding out

icy pupils were already shut tight. He bowed his head, gently holding his mother’s hand with a tenderness that cast a devilish shadow on

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

Ashton cried out, “You just had kidney

landing on her as

blaring

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

the others gradually left the