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 had. Tiana had been a

fell from Whitney’s eyes as she looked at the pair, her voice hoarse. “I’m sorry, Tiana, I

Thank God Bryce got out… He managed to get word to me, and I knew you were alive. These three

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 isn’t over.”

okay these three years,” Tiana replied with

and afraid, and it made Whitney’s

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

her head in despair. “Whitney, you don’t understand the

and all the subsequent horrors that ensued like

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

feel worse,” Tíana

because of Elaine’s tyranny. How long will you keep

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 brink of begging!

countless wrongs, and I refuse

“Whitney, that night 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, accusing you both

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and Elaine quietly ran them into the ground, not

a massive debt. Tiana was so vilified that

not needed to care for her parents, she might have taken her own life by then. What’s more despicable is that she soon discovered she

choice but to have the child, and to this day, after so

face turning a ghastly pale. “Stop talking!”

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 to help Tiana, Elaine would whisper in Ludwik’s ear, and the

threatening me, too.

work,

minions.

the Melford family ended up hiding in

Tiana became increasingly wary, to the point where she wouldn’t even see me. I could only secretly buy

red. Her friends were living such stifled lives, tormented to

a tyrant; her

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

only despised Ludwik and Elaine. However, now that 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

fixed on a specific spot…

a baby’s cry emerged from the bedroom.

infant girl’s tender

why are you awake already?”