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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pained Whitney, who carefully observed Tiana and the

spacious villa the Melford family once had. Tiana

sorry, Tiana, I came back too late. Tell me everything that’s happened to

finally snapped out of her daze and embraced Whitney, breaking down. “We thought you were dead! Thank God Bryce got out… He managed to get word to

away, her wings not yet fully grown. She clenched her fists as she looked at Tiana. “My biggest regret is dragging you down with me! But this

three years,” Tiana replied with a placating smile, her gaze evasive.

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

do everything I can to back you up, to restore the

understand the power of Ludwik Lippert,

ensued like a

ended up like this all because of Elaine Bartels.

don’t make her feel worse,” Tíana tried

“We’ve been cowards for three years because of Elaine’s tyranny. How long

of 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 the scenes, you’ve been pushed to the

bitch has committed countless wrongs, and I refuse to believe that

was humiliated. The 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

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the Melford family, and Elaine quietly ran them into

leaving them with a massive debt. Tiana was so vilified

her parents, she might have taken her own life by then. What’s more despicable is that she soon discovered she was

this day, after so many men that night, we don’t know who the father

tremble, her face turning a ghastly pale.

bit her lip but continued to hold her, “Ludwik abandoned her to her fate, and Elaine ruthlessly finished them off. Anytime Nolan Fuller and I tried

too.

work,

minions.

Melford family ended up hiding in the streets, utterly ruined.

even see me. I could only secretly buy some baby formula for Cherry

a fiery red. Her friends were living such stifled lives, tormented to this extent!

Elaine, that woman was a tyrant; her misdeeds

so young and radiant; she should have had her pick of the most eligible bachelors in Banyan City. All ruined, a scandal, an unwed mother, three years of ridicule, plummeting from the heavens into

now that she found out about how Ludwik had destroyed Tiana’s family and how he completely ignored Elaine’s sins,

fixed on a specific

cry emerged from the bedroom.

infant girl’s tender cries took everyone

why are you awake