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 small

villa the Melford family once had. Tiana

her voice hoarse. “I’m sorry, Tiana, I came back too late.

back!” Valerie 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

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 replied with

and it made Whitney’s heart feel

can to back you up, to restore the Melford family’s glory,” Whitney said with heartache.

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

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

ended up like this

make her feel worse,” Tíana tried to interject.

with tears in 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 to

countless wrongs, and I refuse to believe that no one can

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

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

them with a massive debt. Tiana

in a daze, and if she had 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 was pregnant with Cherry. Tiana’s unique condition meant that terminating

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

began to tremble, her face turning a ghastly pale.

off. Anytime Nolan Fuller and I tried to help Tiana, Elaine would whisper in Ludwik’s ear, and the

was threatening me, too. I’ve

somehow found work, only to be suppressed by

minions.

Melford family ended

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

red. Her friends were living such stifled lives,

Elaine, that woman was a tyrant; her misdeeds

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

Elaine. However, now that she found out about how Ludwik had destroyed Tiana’s family

on a specific spot…

baby’s cry

infant girl’s tender cries took everyone

“Sweetheart, why