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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Whitney, who carefully observed Tiana

villa the

I came

out… He

giving herself away, her wings not yet fully grown. She clenched her fists as she looked at Tiana. “My biggest regret is dragging you down with me! But

Tiana replied with

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

everything I can to back you up, to restore the Melford family’s glory,”

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

subsequent horrors that ensued like a flood of wild

have ended up like this all

worse,” Tíana

in her eyes, insisted. “We’ve been cowards for three years because of Elaine’s

of Cherry and your parents. The Melford.Group was brought to its knees by a single

refuse to believe that no

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

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quietly ran them into the ground,

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

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 the pregnancy would prevent her from

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

began to tremble, her face turning a ghastly

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

too.

somehow found work,

minions.

the Melford family ended up hiding

see me. I could only secretly buy

were living such stifled lives, tormented to

woman was a tyrant; her misdeeds were

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

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 soared through the

gaze was fixed on a

cry

The infant girl’s tender cries took everyone aback.

“Sweetheart, why