Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 247

Chapter 247

With a snap, the curtain was drawn back, not gently but with a deliberate slowness that came from the powerful grip of a man’s hand. Ludwik’s gaze locked with the delicate features of the woman before him, and for a moment, he was stunned. The darkness that had

hovered for a few seconds was quickly replaced by an icy gleam in his eyes, a harbinger of the storm to come.

Whitney quickly withdrew her hand, which he had unwittingly pressed down. Her cold and alluring eyes were fixed on his face.

Three years had seemingly only endowed this man with a more mature and handsome presence. His chiseled features bore the weight of experience, making him even more mysterious and formidable.

But at that moment, Whitney’s legs and throat suddenly flared up with pain so intense it made her scalp tingle and her lips clench tightly.

Ludwik stared at her, his mind also flashing back to that night–the night this woman abandoned their son, the night he stood alone in the morgue beside the small, lifeless body of their other child.

Rising suddenly, he seized Whitney by the neck, his towering frame cornering her against a piece of medical equipment, his anger scorching. “I knew you weren’t dead, you viperous witch! How dare you show your face to me again? Looking for death?”

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His fingers showed no mercy as they tightened.

Whitney coughed swiftly, but a mocking smile bloomed on her lips, her eyes filled with incredulous irony.

After abandoning her and their child for another woman, he had the audacity to call her a viperous witch?

A chill ran through her gaze as she deftly countered his grip with a twist

Chapter 247

of her slender neck, escaping his control with ease.

Standing with her back to the desk, her heels pointed dangerously at his vulnerability, she arched an eyebrow. “Excuse me, sir, but what are you talking about? Do I know you?”

Ludwik’s pupils dilated, his frustration tinged with uncertainty as he

stared at her.

The woman before him, with her delicate features, was unmistakable

even if he were reduced to ashes.

She had grown even more beautiful than three years ago. Her fair skin seemed translucent as if she had been ill, and her features remained lovely. Her hair had curled, and her eyes had changed completely.

Before they were cunning and bright, adorable and full of adoration and humility when they looked at him. They were windows to her love.

very same eyes seemed empty

surge of inexplicable annoyance welled up inside

chin. “Stop playing games with me. I don’t have the patience to deal with bitches like you. What’s your new angle after three years? Blackmail? Extortion? Pretending to be a doctor

proper send–off!” His eyes showed no trace

the door ajar and, upon seeing

with utter shock.

“Madam!”

door, slamming

the medical chart with boredom, “Seduce you? Mr. Lippert, you flatter yourself. According

chart, you’ve been having

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doubt I

years, and she was no longer picky

lively yet cold, seemed to lack a

white lab coat, her long hair casually pinned up with a pen, a stray curl brushed against her charming face.

tall figure imposing as she gestured with a cord. “Please, take a seat and remove your shirt

as though this woman was both familiar and a complete stranger to him.

he imperiously made a call, “Who’s running this place? Get them here now! I want this

her soft fingers snatched the

sending a shiver down Ludwik’s spine and through his limbs. He stiffened, and Whitney tossed the phone onto

the Lippert family under the Imperial Gem Corporation. I’m afraid you don’t have the authority

eyes narrowed slightly.

was Orion

given it much thought; Elaine had insisted

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professional tone, “Please, sit down

kind of doctor are you, anyway? Get

under your eyes. It seems you’re a bit run down.

studying the chart

indifference.

his forehead vein throbbing as he tried to

not feel the slightest bit of

not; she was

advanced, his cigarette–holding hand gripping

the lab coat, her waist was as

remembered.

hard, repulsed as he grasped her. “Weren’t you pretending not to recognize me just now? And now you do. Your lies are revolting. I don’t want to exchange another word with you. Get out. Leave Banyan City, or I’ll make

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