Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 190

Her pale skin was exposed, and she shivered, though it was unclear if it was from the cold or his scolding.

Red–eyed, she tried to explain again, “I didn’t go seeking a deal with Skye Gem Ltd. My manager rushed into that boozy mess by mistake. It was Elaine who told me you’d be at the Oceanus Hotel today. ! thought you were in trouble, I just came to bring you medicine!”

She hurled the pill at his face in anger, feeling powerless and seething,

“Take out all your frustrations on me, but does Skye Gem Ltd. deserve to die? So many employees are counting on their paychecks. Even if I did flirt to secure a deal tonight, it would be because you forced me.”

Ludwik’s eyes reddened as he grasped her forcefully, backing her into a corner, “So you admit you using your body to negotiate deals there? You come home wearing Bryce’s clothes, and you expect me to trust you? We’re not divorced yet, don’t forget who you belong to!”

He roared, only noticing where his hand was when he looked down. Her skin was soft and even more delicate with pregnancy, her beautiful body had thinned, accentuating her swollen belly.

Just the thought of the men tonight, looking at her, calling her a beautiful expectant mother…

Ludwik felt a jealous rage ignite within him, fueled by the alcohol.

Her tenderness, and the physiological longing, swept away his reason in the tide of intoxication.

Ludwik took a deep breath, his actions outpacing his thoughts as he spun her around and pinned her against the edge of the bathtub, his lips twisted into a cruel smirk as he planted biting kisses on her neck, taunting, “Let’s see who’s better, me or Bryce?”

Meine letting

Whitney tensed, recognizing the humiliation in his act, and slapped him across the face in response.

Trying to snap him out of it, tears shimmered in her eyes, “Ludwik, you’re despicable! After letting those men verbally assault me, how could you…”

Bryce was right; there was indeed something more demeaning.

Did he have any idea what she had endured tonight?

A helpless pregnant woman, scared out of her wits, did he even know?

Whitney trembled, opening her mouth to accuse him but found herself too angry to speak.

at her watery, vulnerable expression, feeling only a desire to

and fervent, “I’ll show you what despicable is! And you,

deal?” He avoided her lips, no longer kissing, his hand covering her mouth mercilessly, “Think about it, if I’m satisfied with your terms, I’ll

enduring his violent kiss.

fearful that struggling too much might harm the

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endure the tempest he

despair, she let out a bitter laugh, stating her condition, “If you must do this… then let my cousin Yael go.”

long hand, Ludwik’s voice dark with mockery by her ear, “You’re so eager to

She loved deeply, yet he

consciousness, she found herself barely breathing, lying in bed. Her body was in

baby had been restless earlier, but now that daddy had stopped his rampage, it seemed to have fallen

lifted her head to find the room silent, Ludwik sprawled by her legs, his muscular torso carelessly covered

damp; he was asleep. Thinking back to his earlier fury, Whitney’s face

his devilishly handsome face for a long time before her gaze fell to the

trembling body down, slowly crawling to retrieve a pill from the jacket, stealthily placing it in his mouth, and helped

because he

medicine, he could sleep so soundly, his furrowed brow

he always slept well by her side. Why?

in the past week, had he been unable

rang. Whitney looked up; it wasn’t her phone.

and the

the hotel with medicine to those men humiliating her with

as the phone rang and disconnected, then rang again.

been picked up by Felix and brought to one of Ludwik’s apartments in the middle of the night, was beside herself.

He hadn’t answered.

morning, she tried again, desperately hoping for

filled with feigned distress, “Ludwik, I’m in so much pain. I can’t sleep. Why aren’t you back yet? You promised you’d

made Elaine’s