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.

to catch the words, his handsome, expressionless face

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 in a vegetative state…

a kidney to Natalie!”

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,

him, calling him a brat. He cherished and

His mother.

rush of blood surged to his throat.

rushed over

for him to stop, his jaw

as he said,

shivered, and Parker, his hand trembling

“I can’t believe it was Whitney too. She and her uncle… they took

gaze shifted

I immediately took the police to pursue them, hoping

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…

eyes fell, feeling as if he had plunged into a

that to abduct her

asked, “And

he was, the more Parker’s fingers shook

foot of 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

she had gone into hiding

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

Elaine’s sudden coughing fit erupted, and she spat

just had kidney surgery. You

gaze landing on her as he

called him weakly, the monitor alarms blaring as Ashton

not feeling well. I don’t think

the others gradually left the