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 twisted

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

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

lady’s emergency kidney donation saved her life, but she’s in a deep coma now,

days ago, she had teased him, calling him a brat. He cherished and loved this

His mother.

rush of blood surged to his

rushed over

him to stop, his jaw clenched, his

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

the air, Holan shivered, and Parker,

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

shifted to

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

about to have a miscarriage, and with the quarrel she had with you, she

Taryn’s confession, Ludwik’s eyes fell, feeling as if he had

so much! They used that to abduct her in her

“And

the more

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

gone

were already shut tight. He bowed his head, gently holding his mother’s hand with a tenderness

fit erupted, and she spat out a trace of

just had kidney surgery. You shouldn’t

gaze landing on her as he rose

the monitor alarms blaring as Ashton hurried to summon

feeling well. I don’t think I’ll make it, and there are things I’ve been wanting to tell

others gradually left the