Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 223

“You can shack up with Elaine or get engaged for all I care. I’m divorced, and still, you think you can control me?” Whitney thought.

Remembering how he had allowed Elaine to mock her as ‘second–hand good‘, Whitney’s heart throbbed. What was she to him? Did her feelings not matter at all?

Clutching her fists, she said coolly, “Are you done, Mr. Lippert? If so, please step aside.”

“I don’t have the patience to repeat myself!”

His fury pressed down on her like a suffocating cloud.

Whitney looked up, her eyes shimmering with unshed tears. “The only reason I’m engaged is because you pushed me into it. We have nothing to do with each other anymore, and you have no right to dictate what I do or don’t do.”

We have nothing to do with each other…

Those words seared through the man’s gaze.

“When did I ever force you?” he scoffed coldly, “Force you into another man’s bed, into eagerly jumping into his arms? Whitney, you’re even more shameless than I thought.

Even if I cast a shameless woman like you aside like an old shoe, I won’t allow any other man to touch you, to tarnish my reputation, got it?”

Whitney was floored by his unabashed audacity. It seemed he just kept humiliating her further.

Her nails dug into her palm as she realized that what he discarded could be trampled underfoot but must not tarnish his pride.

A man so arrogant, how could he bear the thought of his ex–wife remarrying? It seemed unrelated to whether he loved her or not.

She felt as if pricked by ice needles and could not help but laugh mockingly. “Mr. Lippert, you’re worried about losing face? Maybe you should reflect on how quickly you got engaged to Elaine after kicking your wife to the curb. You might already be wearing the cap of a scoundrel.”

sacrificed everything for me. What right do you have to speak about her and

narrowed in scorn as he grabbed her arm, drilling his gaze into her, “Do

do you mean?”

a ploy, and The Lutz Group isn’t unstable at all. Are you naive or just willing?

earlier

claiming his fatherly rights in front of Ludwik made his blood boil. “I’m warning you, whether I want it or not, the child in your belly is still mine. If I see Bryce overstepping with you again, you’ll

way Bryce looked at her waist

his eyes reddened with fury as if he wanted to strangle her. “Do you understand what kind of man

of calm and coolness settling over her, “Ludwik, I don’t know what misconceptions you have about him.

say he’s manipulating the media, deceiving me? Sorry, your bluster doesn’t convince me. Just to get to me, he’d neglect The Lutz Group and ruin his own reputation? He’s a businessman; that doesn’t make sense.

me to this bridal shop because a friend recommended it. Bryce is gentle by nature; you’re overthinking it, or maybe

Whitney knew all too well his paranoid

chilling firmness, gripping her until it hurt. “He’s all good, and you don’t believe me, right?”

of a gentleman with your own mean measure. You’ve chosen Elaine, so

one can have the best of both worlds. I’d rather die than be your

let out a low, prolonged sneer.

his mean measure? In her eyes, was he

so protective of Bryce

blind

struck Ludwik’s heart as his gaze returned to an icy glacier, abruptly releasing her, his features sharpening with cold. “So you’re unrepentant and guarding him,

of emotion, and though his look was indifferent, it

sore wrist, watching him walk away coldly.

mean? What price would

angrier than the day he

wave of alarm

was only when Bryce arrived, finding her in the restroom, that Whitney snapped back