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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actions pained Whitney, who carefully observed Tiana and the small two–bedroom

from the spacious villa the Melford family once

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

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

feared giving herself away, her wings not yet fully grown. She clenched her fists as she looked at Tiana. “My

that. I’ve been okay these three years,” Tiana

and it made Whitney’s heart feel as if it had been

I’ll do everything I can to back you up, to restore the Melford family’s glory,”

the power of Ludwik Lippert, the influence of the Bartels family…”

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

her with sorrow and anger. “Tiana, the three of us have ended up like this all because of

worse,” Tíana

been cowards for three years because of Elaine’s

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 brink

countless wrongs, and I refuse to believe that no one

three years ago, Tiana 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,

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quietly ran them into the ground, not

with a massive debt. Tiana was so vilified that no man

What’s more despicable is that

after so many men that night, we

face turning a ghastly pale. “Stop talking!”

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

was threatening me, too.

and desperate, somehow found work, only to be

minions.

this, Tiana’s will was broken, and the Melford family ended up hiding in the streets, utterly

giving birth to her 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 pick up

blazed with a fiery red. Her friends were living

a tyrant; her misdeeds

most eligible bachelors in Banyan City. All ruined, a scandal, an unwed mother, three years of ridicule, plummeting from

found out about how Ludwik had destroyed

gaze was fixed on a

baby’s cry emerged from

girl’s tender cries took everyone

“Sweetheart, why are you awake