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.

his handsome, expressionless face twisted with

and miserable, “It’s all my fault. I couldn’t rescue Natalie in time from Whitney, and now she’s… she’s in a

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

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

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

His mother.

blood surged to his throat.

Holan rushed over

stop, his jaw clenched,

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

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

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

shifted to

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

about to have a miscarriage, and with the quarrel she had with you, she

feeling as if he had plunged into a bottomless ice cellar

her grandson so much! They used that to abduct her in her most vulnerable state.

“And Whitney?”

the more Parker’s fingers

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 with him, and

gone into hiding out

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

and she spat out a trace of blood.

cried out, “You just had kidney surgery. You shouldn’t

gaze landing on her as he rose to his

alarms blaring as Ashton hurried to summon the doctors.

I’m not feeling well. I don’t think I’ll make it, and there are things

gradually left the