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

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

donated a kidney to Natalie!” Ashton said

she arrived at the hospital. Her kidneys were failing fast. This young lady’s emergency kidney donation saved her life,

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

His mother.

surged to his

rushed over

gestured for him to stop, his jaw clenched, his eyelashes trembling fiercely

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

air, Holan shivered, and Parker,

was Whitney too.

gaze shifted to Parker

his voice hoarse, “Taryn alerted us to the emergency. I immediately took the police to pursue

have a miscarriage, and with the quarrel she had with you, she did not care for treatment. In her rush, Natalie

Taryn’s confession, Ludwik’s eyes fell, feeling as if he had plunged

loved her grandson so much! They used that

“And

was, the more Parker’s

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

that she had gone

shut tight. He bowed his head, gently holding his mother’s hand with a tenderness that

and she spat out

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

looked up, his gaze landing on her as he

blaring as Ashton hurried to summon the

I don’t think I’ll make it,

gradually left the