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

opened her eyes weakly, her sobs frail and miserable, “It’s all my fault. I

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

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

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

His mother.

rush of blood surged

Holan rushed

him to stop, his jaw clenched, his eyelashes trembling

cold as the underworld as he said, “Elaine, who

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

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

shifted to

the emergency. I immediately took the police to pursue them, hoping it was a misunderstanding, just wanting to find Natalie quickly,

have a miscarriage, and with the quarrel she had with you, she did not care

as if he had plunged into

much! They used that to

“And Whitney?”

he was, the more Parker’s fingers shook

“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

possibility that she had gone into hiding out of fear

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

and she spat

just had kidney surgery. You shouldn’t

looked up, his gaze landing on her as he

him weakly, the monitor alarms blaring

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

others gradually left the