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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Whitney, who carefully observed

so different from the spacious villa the Melford family once had.

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

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 have suffered so much

She clenched her fists as

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

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

do everything I can to back you

understand the power of Ludwik Lippert, the influence of

all the subsequent horrors that ensued like a flood of wild beasts, causing her to shake her

have ended up like this all because of Elaine Bartels. You need to tell

make her feel worse,”

her eyes, insisted. “We’ve been cowards for three years because of

a single word from Ludwik, and with Elaine manipulating behind the scenes, you’ve been pushed

wrongs, and I refuse to

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

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Elaine quietly ran them into the

debt. Tiana

have taken her own life by then. What’s more despicable is that she soon discovered she was pregnant with Cherry. Tiana’s unique condition meant that terminating the pregnancy would prevent her from ever conceiving again.

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

tremble, her face turning a

fate, and Elaine ruthlessly finished them off. Anytime Nolan Fuller and I tried to help Tiana,

threatening me, too. I’ve been useless!

work,

minions.

the Melford family ended up

child, Tiana became increasingly wary, to the point where she wouldn’t even see me. I could only secretly buy some baby formula for Cherry and

Her friends were living such stifled

was a tyrant; her misdeeds were

City. All ruined, a scandal, an unwed mother, three years of ridicule, plummeting from the heavens into

she found out about how Ludwik had destroyed Tiana’s family and how he completely ignored Elaine’s sins, Whitney’s hatred for Ludwik and Elaine soared through the

fixed on a

a baby’s cry emerged

infant girl’s tender cries

“Sweetheart, why are you