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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who carefully observed Tiana and the small

so different from the spacious villa the Melford

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

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 to me, and

away, her wings not yet fully grown. She clenched her fists as she looked at Tiana. “My biggest regret is

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

and it made Whitney’s heart

to back you up, to restore

“Whitney, you don’t understand the power of

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

anger. “Tiana, the three of us have ended up like this all because of Elaine Bartels. You need to tell Whitney what you’ve

worse,” Tíana tried to interject.

been cowards for three years because of Elaine’s tyranny. How long will you keep hiding like a mouse?

but also of Cherry and your parents. The Melford.Group was brought to its knees by a single word from Ludwik, and with Elaine

bitch has committed countless wrongs, and I refuse to believe

story of Tiana’s visit to the sanitarium to save you, accusing you both of trying

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blacklisted the Melford family, and Elaine quietly ran them

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

her 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

to have the child, and to this day, after so many men that

her face turning a

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

too. I’ve

somehow found work, only to

minions.

and the Melford family

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

eyes blazed with a fiery red. Her friends were living such stifled lives, tormented to

Elaine, that woman was a

pick of the most eligible bachelors in Banyan City. All

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

on a

then, a baby’s cry emerged from the

infant girl’s tender cries took

“Sweetheart, why are you