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

spacious villa the Melford

fell from Whitney’s eyes as she looked at the pair, her voice hoarse. “I’m sorry, Tiana, I came back too late. Tell me everything

you’re 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

away, her wings not yet fully grown. She clenched her fists as she looked

say that. I’ve been okay these three years,” Tiana replied

afraid, and it made Whitney’s

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

her head in despair. “Whitney, you don’t understand the power of Ludwik Lippert, the influence of the Bartels family…”

ensued like a flood of wild

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

feel worse,” Tíana tried

tears in her eyes, 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

has committed countless wrongs, and I refuse to believe that no

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

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Elaine quietly

but also leaving them with a massive debt. Tiana was so vilified that

by then. What’s more despicable is that she soon discovered she was pregnant with Cherry. Tiana’s unique condition meant that terminating the pregnancy would prevent her

but to have the child, and to this day, after so many men that night, we don’t know who

began to tremble, her face turning a ghastly pale. “Stop

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 Fuller Group

me, too. I’ve been useless!

somehow found work, only

minions.

broken, and the Melford family ended

the point where she wouldn’t even see me. I could only secretly buy some

a fiery red. Her friends were living

was a tyrant; her misdeeds were

and radiant; she should have had her pick of the most eligible bachelors 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

fixed on

then, a baby’s cry emerged from the bedroom.

The infant girl’s tender cries took

why are