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.

stood there, watching the doctor’s lips move, unable to catch the words, his handsome, expressionless face twisted with impatience. “What are you

and miserable, “It’s all my fault. I couldn’t rescue Natalie in time from Whitney, and now

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

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 deep coma now, one–third of her brain dead, in a vegetative state.” Ludwik looked at

He cherished and loved this person more than anyone, the woman who had protected him since

His mother.

surged to his

Holan rushed

stop, his jaw clenched, his eyelashes trembling fiercely

underworld as he said, “Elaine, who did you

the air, Holan shivered, and Parker, his hand

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

shifted

us to the emergency. I immediately took the police to pursue

with the quarrel she had with you, she did not care for treatment. In her rush, Natalie was

fell, feeling as if

used that to abduct her in her most vulnerable state.

asked, “And

he was, the more Parker’s fingers

of the mountain the next day. He said you were targeting Skye Gem, that you kidnapped his daughter, and he wanted to destroy

the possibility that she had gone into hiding out of

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

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

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

gaze landing on her

called him weakly, the monitor alarms blaring as Ashton hurried

not feeling well. I don’t think I’ll make it, and there are things I’ve

gradually