Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 251

After parting ways with Orion, Whitney hopped into her car and immediately opened her text messages, eagerly awaiting Tiana’s current address.

But there was no text. Tiana had backed out.

Whitney sighed. The once fearless Tiana had now become so cautious.

She had no choice but to seek help from Bryce, asking him to dig up some information.

Bryce quickly provided her with a precise address.

After thanking him, Whitney drove off.

As the GPS guided her past the bustling downtown area, the neighborhoods grew shabbier, and she finally pulled up in front of a narrow, dilapidated old building.

Staring at the worn alley and the squalid surroundings, Whitney could not believe Tiana and her parents were hiding in a place like this.

What on earth had happened in the past three years to bring the Melford family to such a state? Taking a deep breath, Whitney got out of the car and slowly entered the building.

Just as she was about to knock, the door swung open, and she came face–to–face with the last person she expected.

Valerie, holding an empty can of baby formula, looked up, and her eyes widened in shock.

The two friends stood there, tears glistening in their eyes.

“Valerie,” Whitney called softly.

“Whit… Whitney?” Valerie dropped the can, her voice trailing off as she turned and called back into the apartment, “Tiana! It’s Whitney! She’s here!”

Footsteps echoed from inside.

Tiana appeared behind the door, her formerly round cheeks now slender, her long hair cut to a bob that brushed her pale shoulders.

The sweet, brash girl Whitney remembered from three years ago had transformed into a quiet, slick woman.

Her features were soft, with a hint of motherly allure, but her eyes lacked sparkle. She looked at Whitney in shock, tears welling up.

Whitney took another deep breath, her lips trembling as she stepped inside without a word.

“Whitney… What are you doing here?”

Tiana quickly wiped her eyes and cautiously glanced outside before swiftly shutting the door.

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observed Tiana and the

the spacious villa the Melford family once had. Tiana had been a princess.

looked at the pair, her voice hoarse. “I’m sorry, Tiana, I came back too late. Tell me everything that’s happened to you in these

“We thought you were dead! Thank God Bryce got out… He managed to get word to me, and I knew you were alive. These three years, Whitney, you must

not yet fully grown. She clenched her fists

say that. I’ve been okay these three years,” Tiana replied with a

looked worn down and afraid, and it made Whitney’s heart feel as if it had been pierced.

to back you up, to restore the Melford family’s glory,” Whitney

despair. “Whitney, you don’t understand the power

horrors that ensued like a flood of wild

of us have ended up like this all because of Elaine Bartels.

worse,” Tíana tried

tears in her eyes, insisted. “We’ve been cowards for three years because of Elaine’s tyranny. How long will you keep

yourself but also of Cherry and your parents. The Melford.Group was brought to its knees by a single word from Ludwik, and with Elaine manipulating behind

and I refuse to believe that no one can expose her!”

next day, her photos spread throughout Banyan City, destroying her reputation overnight. Elaine twisted the story of Tiana’s visit to the sanitarium to save you, accusing you both of trying to slander her with a fake kidney donation, saying you deliberately went into early labor to spite Ludwik. That jerk believed it all and turned against you with

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quietly ran them

but also leaving them with a massive debt. Tiana

have taken her own life by then. What’s more despicable is that

was no choice but to have the child, and to this day, after so many men

began to tremble, her face turning a ghastly pale. “Stop

lip but continued to hold her, “Ludwik abandoned her to her fate, and Elaine ruthlessly finished them off. Anytime Nolan Fuller and I tried to help Tiana, Elaine would whisper in Ludwik’s ear, and the Fuller Group and our

threatening me, too. I’ve been

and desperate, somehow found work, only

minions.

broken, and the Melford family ended up

her child, Tiana became increasingly wary, to the point where she wouldn’t even see me.

with a fiery red. Her friends were

a tyrant;

City. All ruined, a scandal, an unwed mother, three years

how Ludwik had destroyed Tiana’s family and how he completely ignored

on a specific spot…

a baby’s cry emerged from the bedroom.

girl’s tender cries took everyone

in. “Sweetheart, why are you awake already?”