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.

there, watching the doctor’s lips move, unable to catch the words, his handsome, expressionless face twisted with

fault. I couldn’t rescue Natalie in

about? You just donated a kidney to

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 his mother, her frail, sickly face, her peaceful

and loved this person more than anyone, the woman who had protected him since childhood.

His mother.

rush of blood surged to his throat.

rushed

to stop, his jaw clenched, his eyelashes

as the underworld as he

that question hanging in the air, Holan shivered, and Parker, his hand trembling

flowed from Elaine’s eyes as she cried, “I can’t believe it was Whitney too. She and her uncle… they took Natalie,

gaze shifted to

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 you

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

eyes fell, feeling as if he had plunged into a bottomless ice cellar

They used that to

asked, “And Whitney?”

was, the more Parker’s fingers

“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

she had gone into

bowed his head, gently holding his

Elaine’s sudden coughing fit erupted, and she spat

just had kidney surgery. You shouldn’t

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

blaring as Ashton hurried

I don’t think I’ll make it,

the others gradually left the room.