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.

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

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

donated a kidney to

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

two days ago, she had teased him, calling him a brat. He cherished and loved this person more than anyone,

His mother.

rush of blood surged to his throat.

Holan rushed over

to stop, his jaw clenched, his

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

in the air, Holan shivered, and Parker, his hand trembling with a

was Whitney too. She and her uncle… they took Natalie, knowing how

gaze shifted to

I immediately took the police to pursue them, hoping it was a misunderstanding, just wanting to find Natalie quickly, not wanting you to

uncle plotted this whole thing Natalie received a call from him saying Whitney was about to have a miscarriage, and with the quarrel she had with you, she did not care for treatment. In her rush, Natalie was taken, and I

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

that to abduct her

“And

he was, the more Parker’s fingers shook

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

unsaid the possibility that she had gone into hiding out of fear of prosecution.

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

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

just had kidney surgery.

her as he rose to his

alarms blaring

her voice pitiful, “Ludwik, I’m not feeling well. I don’t think I’ll make

others gradually left the room.