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 face twisted with impatience. “What are you trying to

and miserable, “It’s all my fault. I couldn’t

what are you talking about? You just donated a kidney

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

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

His mother.

blood surged

Holan rushed over

him to stop, his jaw clenched,

as cold as the underworld as he said, “Elaine, who

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

from Elaine’s eyes as she cried, “I can’t believe it was Whitney too. She and her uncle… they took Natalie, knowing how frail

shifted

the police to pursue them, hoping it was a

had with you, she did not care for treatment. In her

feeling as if he had

that to

“And Whitney?”

he was, the more Parker’s fingers shook

Gem, that you kidnapped his daughter, and he wanted to destroy you both.

that she had gone into

He bowed his head, gently holding his mother’s hand with a tenderness that cast a devilish shadow on

fit erupted, and she spat out a trace of blood.

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

on her as he rose to his feet.

blaring as Ashton

don’t think I’ll make it, and there are things

the others gradually left the