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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observed

so different from the spacious villa the Melford family once had. Tiana

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

dead! Thank God Bryce got out… He managed to get word to me, and I knew you were

grown. She clenched her fists as she looked at Tiana. “My biggest

years,” Tiana replied with a

down and afraid, and it 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,” Whitney said with

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

three years ago and all the subsequent horrors that ensued like a

sorrow and anger. “Tiana, the three of us have ended up like this all because of

worse,” Tíana tried to

with tears in her eyes, insisted. “We’ve been cowards for three years because of Elaine’s tyranny. How long

was brought to its knees by a single word from Ludwik, and with Elaine

countless wrongs, and I refuse

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 believed it all and turned against you with a vengeance.

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family, and Elaine quietly ran them into

massive debt. Tiana was so vilified

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

to this day, after so many men that night, we don’t know who the father is.”

turning a ghastly pale.

them off. Anytime Nolan Fuller and I tried to help Tiana, Elaine

threatening me, too. I’ve been

pregnant and desperate, somehow found work,

minions.

the Melford family ended up

even see me. I could only secretly buy some baby formula for

fiery red. Her friends were living

a tyrant;

Banyan City. All ruined, a scandal, an unwed mother, three years of ridicule, plummeting from the heavens into the mire.

despised Ludwik and Elaine. However, now that she found out about how Ludwik had destroyed

was fixed on a specific spot…

cry emerged from the bedroom.

infant girl’s tender cries took

why are you awake