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

villa the Melford family once had. Tiana had been

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

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

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

say that. I’ve been okay these three years,” Tiana replied with a placating smile, her

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

afraid. I’ll do everything I can to back you up, to restore the Melford

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

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

looked at her with sorrow and anger. “Tiana, the three of us have ended up like this all because of Elaine Bartels. You need to tell Whitney what you’ve been

feel worse,”

three years because of Elaine’s tyranny.

knees by a single word from Ludwik, and with Elaine manipulating behind

countless wrongs, and I refuse

visit to the sanitarium to save you, accusing you both of trying to slander her with a fake kidney donation,

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Melford family, and Elaine quietly ran them into the ground,

a massive debt. Tiana was

What’s more despicable is that she soon discovered she was

the child, and to this day, after so many

tremble, her face turning a ghastly pale. “Stop

fate, and Elaine ruthlessly finished them off. Anytime Nolan Fuller and I tried to help

too. I’ve

pregnant and desperate, somehow found work,

minions.

was broken, and the Melford family ended up hiding in the streets, utterly

wary, to the point where she wouldn’t even see me.

were living such stifled

was a

most eligible bachelors in Banyan City. All ruined, a scandal,

she saw Tiana, Whitney 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

fixed on a specific

baby’s cry

girl’s tender cries took everyone

immediately rushed in. “Sweetheart, why are you