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

fault. I couldn’t rescue Natalie in time from

You just donated a kidney to Natalie!” Ashton said with a

the hospital. Her kidneys were failing fast. This young lady’s emergency kidney donation saved her life, but she’s in a deep

He cherished and loved this person more than anyone,

His mother.

rush of blood surged

rushed

for him to stop, his jaw

the underworld as he said, “Elaine, who

Holan shivered, and Parker,

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 she

gaze shifted to

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

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

confession, Ludwik’s eyes fell, feeling as if he had plunged into a bottomless

used that to abduct her in

“And

calmer he was, the more Parker’s fingers

“I caught Keegan at the 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

unsaid the possibility that she had gone into hiding

shut tight. He bowed his head, gently holding his mother’s hand with a tenderness that cast a devilish

fit erupted, and she spat out a trace

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

on her

the monitor alarms blaring as Ashton hurried to

feeling well. I don’t think I’ll make

gradually left the