Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 180

Whitney knew the bitter truth – Ludwik didn’t trust her anymore. Her belated affection was lighter than air in

his eyes.

“Elaine, come in!” Ludwik called from the living room doorway.

“Ludwik, wait, let me have a word with Ms. Valentine,” Elaine said, approaching Whitney with a hypocritical

smile,

The living room door closed with a click, and Elaine’s facade immediately darkened, her voice dripping with malice in the dead of night.

“You see, Ludwik swallows every word I say, while he can’t stand the sight of you. Did you hear that? We’re getting engaged! That’s why he’s in a rush to divorce you and kick you out. Don’t you get it?

Clutching at straws to win him back even though you’re staring down a police investigation for that kidnapping? Maybe a few years behind bars will teach you to stay in your lane.”

As Elaine reached for her phone to make good on her threat, Whitney slapped it out of her hand and followed with a stinging slap across Elaine’s face.

No more words were wasted.

Elaine, caught off–guard, clutched her reddening cheek, unprepared for Whitney’s sudden lash out.

“How dare you hit me? You wretch!”

Whitney replied calmly, “I’d think twice about framing me. The deeper the police dig into that kidnapping, the more your dirty secrets will come to light.”

Elaine’s face turned ashen.

Whitney’s smirk grew colder. “You’d best make sure the police keep me out of it.”

“This slap is for the night you stepped on my child, causing it distress!”

As for the rest, Whitney would repay in time.

to reveal Elaine’s venomous nature to Ludwik. Only then could she hope to win back

“Don’t get in my way, Elaine. If Ludwik’s condition worsens because you can’t treat him,

a stormy

including secretly consulting top foreign psychiatrists, Ludwik’s insomnia persisted.

fear in Elaine’s eyes, Whitney revealed a vial of medicine. “This will help him sleep. Looks like you’ll

Ludwik loathes you.

endure me sharing his bed every night while you’re left out in the cold with your bastard child, I’m not bothered. Oh, and

hand marking

mind?” Elaine gasped, her face a mix of

mind adding to my list of sins.

hand froze on her reddened

mood.

how I deal with

your worst. A barefoot person has nothing

then. There’s a storm

behind her as she entered

lights of the mansion came alive, warm and bright as before, but none of it belonged to Whitney

o’clock, Whitney saw the light in their former master bedroom switch on. Through the sheer curtains, she saw Ludwik’s tall silhouette, and beside him, the delicate

same

into her

it be? Was Ludwik really with her tonight?

engulfed Whitney as she watched.

the master bedroom.

his gaze as cold and deep as the ocean floor.

stood close behind Ludwik,

flickered

sanctuary with her. I liked

need for medical equipment, Ludwik said, “They

these are memories of you

gaze darkened. “What use are such

the staff to throw her things out.”