Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 207

Ludwik didn’t dwell on it, and the conversation didn’t continue. He

watched silently as she ate two bowls of oatmeal.

The phone rang, and the man stood to go upstairs, “I need to sign some paperwork.”

“Oh.” Whitney’s lips paused, surprised by his initiative to speak to her. Could they be mending fences?

Her heart raced with excitement yet feared it was all an illusion.

After taking the dishes to the kitchen, Whitney went back to her room for her phone and found several missed calls.

They were from Bryce, Valerie Bartels, Skye Gem Ltd.’s Nyx, and Tiana, who had called over a dozen times.

She was about to call back when her phone rang again. Whitney answered with a rare cheerfulness, “Why so many calls, Tiana? What’s up?”

“Whitney! Did you catch the news? You’re in deep trouble,” Tiana Melford’s voice was laden with urgency.

Whitney was taken aback. What news could she be in?

She immediately opened the day’s trending topics and saw the top headline, ‘Mr. Lippert’s wife caught in scandalous affair, explosive video released.‘

Whitney was dumbfounded and anxious as she clicked on the video. After watching, she felt the room spin.

“Whitney, why were you at a hotel with Bryce? The video has a timestamp–it’s from the 28th before the New Year. Weren’t you in South City that day? Could you be possibly set up?”

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Tiana was frantic, “The news is blown up. I can’t pull it down. I can’t believe you’d do this. I trust you, but Ludwik might not.”

As she spoke, there was a sudden noise from upstairs.

Whitney trembled, belatedly realizing she should get up. Her face was pale, and she ran out immediately.

strode out with a chilling gaze.

mind buzzed to

a

standstill.

news and dialed a number, “Jaxon, get the PR

in time to

have you? You’re still not fully recovered. Let’s skip today’s news and take a walk.”

facade barely concealed her

still playing on the screen, with Bryce’s heavy breathing

face drained of

“Ludwik, this is a misunderstanding. Let

care of Braxton and

stood before Whitney. His eyes were

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get the confidence to assume that you wouldn’t dare cross the line? You harlot, playing

Whitney’s voice trembled as she tried to explain,

was drugged, he called me in a panic to help him. The drug made him lose control, that’s why he clung to me

me. Nothing happened between us,

you think I’m

to let go. So you’ve been sleeping

I love! I went to save Braxton for you.” “Whitney, you’re so hypocritical. You’ve cuckolded Ludwik so grandly

“I can’t stand by and watch. You might not know, but Bryce is Braxton’s prized student. Whitney went to help him that night, not

nonsense are you spouting, Elaine?” Whitney shouted back, but Ludwik’s expression had already shifted.

help but laugh

the start! When Keegan sought revenge, she colluded with Orion and already lined up Bryce

long before. She cheated

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days she’s insisted on staying under the pretense of taking care of you. Perhaps Bryce

and Whitney’s after it too!”

thunder. All reason left him when he saw the video, which convinced