Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 241

She trembled with unprecedented rage at the sight of Ashton, her fingers quivering with fury. “It’s all because you’re blind and foolish, siding with the devil, supporting Elaine’s lies! To hell with all three of you! I was blind to give everything to marry a scoundrel like you. I regret it!”

“What… What did you say?” Ashton frowned, taken aback by her vitriolic outburst. He had never seen her this angry before.

“Ludwik!” Valerie cried uncontrollably. “You have no idea what Whitney went through in that sanatorium. Last night, she finally escaped, intending to find you. Why were you so conveniently not in Banyan City at that critical moment? Can’t you see what’s happening?”

She was consumed with hatred on behalf of Whitney and Tiana. Tiana was now ruined, her whereabouts unknown, likely hiding, and terrified.

And Whitney, oh, Whitney…

Valerie covered her face and ran out, filled with despair.

At the entrance, Parker arrived late, his seductive, tired eyes barely concealed by his glasses.

Nolan was furious. “Where the hell were you last night? Ludwik’s child was born prematurely, and Whitney abandoned the baby and fled. We don’t know if she’s lost at sea or has escaped! Elaine claims it was a conspiracy between Whitney and Tiana, and now Ludwik is broken.”

Parker paused, glancing toward the ward.

“Tiana tried to set up Elaine by hiring thugs, only to be humiliated by them. Now she’s hiding somewhere, her reputation in tatters by morning.”

Parker’s frown deepened. That bubbly girl?

“Where were you last night?” Nolan demanded again.

Parker averted his eyes, the heat in them fading as he said, “I didn’t mean to be absent, but you know how it is in the underworld, always in trouble. I was ambushed last night and nearly killed, saved by a woman.”

He had risked his life, and now he feared he had brought disaster upon that woman.

When he woke up this morning, she was gone.

want things to end up this way, regretting the unexpected loss of his innocence, but he knew he had to take responsibility. Thus, he turned and

enter the ward. Parker was always able to get through

the man sitting there, pale and cold as a statue. In one night, Ludwik seemed to have changed, his calm exterior hiding

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you planned to take Elaine

teamed up with Tiana to frame Elaine,

‘rescue‘ Bryce?

think it’s all too

his gaze piercingly cold. “Didn’t you tell me some time ago that you personally checked on my

a preliminary investigation of that surgery.”

Tiana schemed and found a girl to falsely accuse Elaine of a sham kidney donation, and Ashton confirmed Elaine indeed has one kidney after a physical exam. When you checked the nephrology

He was impartial. “Indeed, I saw Ms. Melford at TriMed Hospital that day, leaving Dr. Horatio‘ office. She was probably investigating

to the hospital to find a girl selling organs, already planning to frame Elaine

silent, unable to refute, remembering Tiana’s evasive response when he asked her about

the incubator, his fists tightening with a

into the sea. There

who speaks for that woman, I shall

“Ludwik, I know you’re deeply hurt, but even if Whitney is heartless, she left you this child. Consider

icy heart and frosty expression seemed to solidify into impenetrable ice.

She didn’t want it! Parker, you’ll never understand how I feel. It’s

and his hatred was perhaps just as deep.

Melford family. You know how to help it along, right? Jaxon, take more compromising photos of Tiana. Threaten her–if she

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pay with their lives. Spin her story, turn her into

‘evidence‘ would not be a worry