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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carefully observed Tiana and

spacious villa the Melford family

looked at the pair, her voice hoarse. “I’m sorry, Tiana, I came back

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 me, and I knew

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

okay these three years,” Tiana replied with

down and afraid, and it made Whitney’s

Tiana, don’t be afraid. I’ll do everything I can to back you up, to restore the Melford family’s glory,” Whitney said

understand the

subsequent horrors that ensued like a flood of wild

three of us have ended up like this all because

her feel worse,”

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

a single word from Ludwik, and with Elaine manipulating behind the scenes, you’ve been pushed to the brink of begging!

wrongs, and I refuse to believe that no one

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

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Elaine quietly ran them

massive debt. Tiana was so vilified that no man would consider marrying

she might have taken her own life by then. What’s more despicable is that she soon discovered she was pregnant

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

turning a ghastly pale.

ruthlessly 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

was threatening me, too.

and desperate, somehow found work, only to be

minions.

this, Tiana’s will was broken, and the Melford family ended up hiding in the

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

friends were living such stifled lives, tormented

a tyrant; her misdeeds

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

However, now that she found out about how Ludwik had destroyed

was fixed on a specific

a baby’s cry emerged from the

mommy…” The infant girl’s tender cries took

why are you awake