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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carefully observed Tiana and

spacious villa the Melford family once had. Tiana

her voice hoarse. “I’m sorry, Tiana, I

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

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

three years,” Tiana replied with a placating smile,

Whitney’s heart feel as if it had been pierced.

back now, Tiana, don’t be afraid. I’ll do everything I can to back you up, to restore the Melford family’s glory,” Whitney said

head in despair. “Whitney, you don’t understand the power of Ludwik Lippert,

recalled that night three years ago and all the subsequent horrors that ensued like a flood of wild beasts, causing

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

make her feel worse,” Tíana tried to

insisted. “We’ve been cowards for three years because of Elaine’s tyranny. How long will you keep hiding

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

and I refuse to believe that no one

her photos spread throughout Banyan City, destroying her reputation overnight. Elaine twisted the story of Tiana’s visit to the sanitarium to save

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the Melford family, and Elaine quietly ran them into the ground, not just

them but also leaving them with a massive debt. Tiana was so vilified that no man would

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

child, and to this day, after so many men that night,

face turning a

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

me, too. I’ve been useless!

found work, only to be suppressed by Elaine’s

minions.

and the Melford family ended up

wouldn’t even see me. I could only secretly buy some baby formula for Cherry and

fiery red. Her friends were

a tyrant; her misdeeds were

pick of the most eligible bachelors in Banyan City. All ruined, a scandal, an unwed mother,

that she found out about how Ludwik had destroyed Tiana’s

on a specific spot…

a baby’s cry emerged from

infant girl’s tender cries

in. “Sweetheart, why