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.

doctor’s lips move, unable to catch the words, his handsome, expressionless face twisted with impatience. “What are you trying to say?!”

fault. I couldn’t rescue Natalie in time from Whitney, and now

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

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

cherished and loved this person more than anyone, the woman who had protected

His mother.

of blood surged

rushed over

his jaw clenched, his

underworld as he said, “Elaine,

that question hanging in the air, Holan shivered, and Parker, his hand trembling with a cigarette,

she cried, “I can’t believe it was Whitney too. She and

shifted to

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

uncle 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

if he had plunged into a bottomless ice cellar

much! They used that to abduct

“And Whitney?”

he was, the more Parker’s fingers

were targeting Skye Gem, that you kidnapped his daughter, and he wanted to destroy you both. Whitney

had gone into hiding out

his mother’s hand with a tenderness that

erupted, and she

cried out, “You just had kidney surgery. You shouldn’t be talking”

up, his gaze landing on her as

blaring as Ashton hurried to summon

in fear, her voice pitiful, “Ludwik, I’m not feeling well. I don’t think I’ll make it, and there are things I’ve been wanting to tell

gradually left the