Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 249

Over at the other end, the response came quickly. [Seen your patient already?]

[What game are you playing?]

Orion burst into laughter, then replied, [Why do you have to assume the worst about me? Whitney, I know what you’re back in town for, and I’m helping you out. Think about it. My big brother’s weird illness, I heard Elaine had seen all the top doctors to no avail. How did your treatment fare today?]

He teased her.

Whitney did not want to recall that scene.

[You just love to stir the pot, don’t you?]

Orion called her directly, clearly in high spirits, speaking with a deep tone, “Whitney, it’s time to repay the favor from three years ago. You promised me something, and now that you’re back, let’s meet up and sign that work contract!”

Whitney, of course, knew that a favor from Orion was not something to be taken lightly.

She furrowed her brows and stood up to change her clothes. “I won’t back out of the contract. Where’s the meeting?”

Orion gave her an address, and Whitney hung up, grabbing her bag and heading out the door.

Being a doctor was just a side gig, but now it seemed like part of Orion’s scheme.

She descended the stairs.

Into the hospital corridor below.

“Ludwik!” A child’s voice, milky yet firm, called out.

Ludwik and Felix had just reached the Bentley when they saw his son, looking Father displeased, running towards them, accompanied by a bodyguard.

The little one’s delicate features caught the eye of every nurse in the corridor, making them wonder whose handsome son he could be.

As the nurses caught sight of his father, dashing and imposing, they instantly understood. Murmurs of envy filled the air.

Ludwik turned, his brow furrowed as he walked back, his face somber. “Why aren’t you at school? Why did you follow me here?”

“I didn’t follow you. The lunch at preschool was terrible. You cook for me!”

Daniel Lippert, with his backpack slung over his shoulders and arms crossed, looked insolently

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at his father.

a helpless twist of his brow.

son was aloof, pushing at his arm, wanting to

down on his brow.

quickly tried to smooth things over and chuckled. “Our Danny here is the number one fan of Mr. Lippert’s cooking. Mr. Lippert, why don’t you indulge him and cook

a way out without losing their dignity.

Ludwik remained silent.

no one was

father looked his way, he stubbornly pouted his

out to pull him along. “Let’s go.”

Slow down.” Daniel

Ludwik was thinking of the callous and heartless woman upstairs. If she saw that he had a son, knowing her

such

mother.

he had felt upstairs vanished as he placed his son in the car. The door slammed shut, and the vehicle roared

top of the stairs. Had she just

that voice sounded eerily like her own son, Sammy!

of distraction, she hurried down the stairs, only to

if drawn by some force and

speeding past her, too fast to

fleeting moment, she was taken aback. In the rear window, there seemed to be a little boy with a side profile that

blinking, unsure if she had imagined it. Her heart felt an inexplicable pang,

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license plate was different from three years

in the

she seen wrong?

out her phone to make an

came through, “Whitney, it’s daytime over there. right? Why are you calling at this

“Where’s Sammy?”

You sneaked back to the country and didn’t even tell me; I’m a bit upset, you

although he claimed to be upset, his eyes

when he grew up. Whitney, somewhat helplessly, tugged at the

back to get revenge on that scumbag dad, did

looked incredulously at

nonsense, right? How could

mother’s eyes, Sammy shifted his gaze slyly. “I’m kidding. Didn’t my dad die