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 with impatience. “What

miserable, “It’s all my fault. I couldn’t rescue Natalie in

donated a kidney to Natalie!”

penetrate Ludwik’s mind. “Mr. Lippert, your mother was kidnapped 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

ago, she had teased him, calling him a brat. He cherished and

His mother.

blood surged to

rushed over

gestured for him to stop, his jaw clenched, his

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

and

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

shifted to Parker

immediately took the police to pursue them,

she had with you, she did not care for treatment. In her rush, Natalie was taken, and I was thrown from the car… Taryn wept beside Natalie’s

confession, Ludwik’s eyes fell, feeling as if he

loved her grandson so much! They used that to abduct her

asked, “And

calmer he was, the more Parker’s fingers shook

said you were targeting Skye Gem, that you kidnapped his daughter, and he wanted to destroy you

possibility that she had gone into hiding

bowed his head, gently holding his mother’s hand with a

Elaine’s sudden coughing fit erupted, and she

just had kidney

her as he rose to his feet.

alarms blaring as Ashton hurried to

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

and the others gradually