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.

unable to catch the words, his handsome, expressionless face twisted with impatience.

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

a kidney to Natalie!” Ashton said with a heart

kidney donation saved

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

His mother.

surged to his

Holan rushed over

his jaw

the underworld as he said, “Elaine, who did you say

in the air, 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…

gaze shifted

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 wanting to find Natalie quickly, not wanting

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

if he had plunged into a

grandson so much! They used that to abduct her

“And Whitney?”

was, the more

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

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

Elaine’s sudden coughing fit erupted, and she spat out a trace

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

up, his gaze landing on her as he rose to his feet.

“Haine called him weakly, the monitor alarms blaring as Ashton

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

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