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

her eyes weakly, her sobs frail and miserable, “It’s all my fault. I couldn’t rescue Natalie in time from Whitney,

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

young 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

teased him, calling him a brat. He cherished and loved this person more than anyone, the woman who had

His mother.

blood surged to his

rushed

gestured for him to stop, his jaw

the underworld as he said, “Elaine, who did you say kidnapped my mom?”

hanging in the air, Holan shivered, and Parker, his hand

too. She and her uncle… they took Natalie, knowing how frail she

shifted to Parker

pursue them, hoping it was a misunderstanding, just wanting to find Natalie quickly, not wanting you to blame Whitney…

quarrel she had with

fell, feeling as if he had plunged into

so much! They used that to abduct her in

“And

he was, 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

that she had gone into hiding

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

sudden coughing fit erupted, and she spat out a trace

Ashton cried out, “You just had

landing on her as he rose to his

monitor alarms blaring as Ashton hurried to summon the doctors.

“Ludwik, I’m not feeling well. I don’t think I’ll make it, and there

the others gradually left the room.