Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 318

Tiana didn't verbalize these thoughts; instead, she just implored, "Just be careful on your way, okay? And about last night at the party, I'm sorry I couldn't protect you." "What are you talking about? It was me who slowed you down. You were trying to help revive my family's fortune, and I got taken down by Endora..."

"I won't let it happen again. I've realized, what's reputation worth, anyway? I need to learn to be as resilient as you. Anyone who's ever bullied me..." "I'll help you get back at them!" Whitney declared with conviction.

Tiana was moved and hugged her tightly.

"Whitney, you made my mommy cry!" Cherry wobbled over.

"Sweetie, it's not like that. They're just having a heart-to-heart," Sammy explained.

Whitney paused for a moment, feeling as if her warm-hearted son had returned. Just yesterday, 'Sammy' was giving Cherry the cold shoulder.

Only Cherry knew what was really going on as she winked at her brother.

They said their goodbyes at the door.

Held by the nanny, Tiana went outside to hail a cab.

At ten in the morning, the streets were congested, and the driver couldn't get through. Tiana had to walk a bit to meet him.

"Mummy..." Cherry felt uneasy outside.

She wriggled out of the nanny's arms and chased after her mother...

But with her short legs and wobbly steps, she soon lost sight of Tiana. When Cherry realized what had happened, she found herself standing alone at the curb, surrounded by traffic.

"Waaa, Mummy, where are you?" The young girl stood bewildered, on the verge of darting around in panic.

Suddenly, a Hummer approached, and Cherry's mouth formed an 'O' as she screamed, "Ah, Mummy, save me!"

"Parker?" a voice came from the car.

"Damn, hit a kid," Parker muttered, catching a glimpse of a pink corner of clothing and the puffy face of a little girl on the ground.

In that moment, his heart inexplicably skipped a beat. His long legs kicked the car door open, and he rushed out.

kiddo, you alright?" the man's deep voice

scraped and bleeding as she

eyes met the towering figure before her. Wow, he was

face, strikingly handsome, seemed like something out of a comic

more so than her brothers, Cherry

this handsome man look so

had seen him on TV before,

Cherry was still processing when strong arms

was warm. Cherry tilted her head, looked at Parker for two seconds,

Parker, through his glasses, got a clear view of the little

in

"Cherry!"

"You little rascal, how dare you run off? Do you have any idea how worried Mummy was?" Hearing that voice, Parker felt a pang of

face, the man's

Mummy?

stiffened. Tiana, this woman, had secretly had a child in the past three years?

did this little girl look

Cherry, froze in

the man

trembling, Tiana managed a bitter smile mixed with fear. How was

moment, Endora rushed down from the car, seeing Parker holding that

on Tiana. "Parker, this child of Tiana's, I've been

struck by lightning, unable

at Endora. That woman's mouth

hiding, fearing the Doonan family

a whirlwind as she reached out to Parker, standing vulnerably in front of the

looked down at Cherry again, feeling an

brother's child? Was his

feel that this little

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medicine hanging on the door, labeled from a pharmacy. "Mommy, who sent this?" Sammy

picked it up, puzzled, to find it filled with ointments for external