Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 326

Danny's injuries were so severe that he couldn't afford to think about his son's words. Without hesitation, he ordered the SWAT team to tie the boy to him and pull them up together. Whitney's eyes followed 'Sammy,' but all she saw was her unconscious son, his little hand still stiffly pointing at the ground.

She couldn't understand why she felt so panicked. Sammy had been rescued, hadn't he? She chalked up her unease to the possibility that her child might be seriously hurt. So, she quickened her pace, wanting to catch up. "Wait a sec, Whitney!"

Tiana suddenly called out to her, having also heard 'Sammy's' words.

What else? What could it mean? 'Sammy's' hand was pointing at the ground. Tiana knew that Ludwik had an identical twin to Sammy. It hit her like a lightning bolt, and she suddenly felt slow on the uptake. Whitney and Ludwik discovering their son's kidnapping and reporting it wasn't just a coincidence. It was very likely that the child with Ludwik had also been kidnapped. That's why Ludwik was in such a hurry. Both of them?

Tiana took a deep breath and her eyes darted around the cave. "Tiana, what's wrong?"

Whitney, clutching her chest, felt an intense palpitation but didn't understand why.

"Come with me!" Tiana said decisively, ignoring the SWAT's calls from above and instead led Whitney deeper into the cave. "Let's keep looking; there might be something else hidden here..." "What do you mean?" Whitney was utterly confused.

"Another child!" Tiana stamped her foot in frustration.

"...What?" Whitney was baffled.

But as they moved further into the darkness, Whitney's sense of dread grew stronger. Until they found a small hole in a pile of rocks, leading to what seemed like a deeper, dead end of the cave. From inside came the feeble voice of a child on the brink of life, "Mommy...is that you?"

Whitney stared at the hole, dumbstruck, then suddenly covered her mouth. Had she heard wrong? Why did it sound like Sammy's voice? So gentle, so helpless, he was crying.

"Sammy..." she couldn't believe it, kneeling down with Tiana to frantically move the pile of rocks to the side. But how could it be? Sammy had just been taken away by Ludwik.

Whitney's heart raced as she squeezed into the hole until the light from her phone illuminated a bruised little face. She was stunned, shocked. Was this an illusion? Why was there a child who looked exactly like Sammy? Inexpressible trembling and tears enveloped her. Whitney crawled over and hugged the little one tightly, her chest quivering with heartbreak, "An asthma attack, you...you're Sammy! Then who was..."

"It's Danny, Mommy, you finally came." Sammy's voice was barely a whisper as tears fell. He thought he'd been abandoned by his mommy and daddy. After all, no one knew he existed.

her eyes slightly red, "Hurry,

Whitney clumsily got up...

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At the hospital at the foothills of Southern

watched as Sammy was wheeled out of the operating room, the bright lights making

got him here in time and performed the right emergency procedures on the way. A second later and this poor child might not have made it! Long-term asthma, confined spaces, and signs of near-drowning, I can't imagine how he survived two hours. How do you parents even take care of your children? Before you, there was another child who was

head as

suite downstairs, and he's got bodyguards everywhere. Though he won't come up here, Whitney..." Whitney clenched

have to lay low then," Tiana said cautiously, then quietly

Whitney still felt dazed, "Tiana, how is this possible? The child Ludwik took away tonight...wasn't

Her mind was a blank, chaotic

left." Tiana patted

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sure it's just a

dark

son is only three years old. He's suffered multiple injuries and shock, on top of his frail condition; he might be unconscious for a few hours. Rest assured,

losing his son.

"Mr. Lippert, Elaine's room is just next door, she's crying in

brows tightly knit as he walked away, "Keep a close eye on the

the room opened and closed, nurses

are

beginning to wake, heard his daddy's deep voice, knowing he went to see the bad

him, but the two

I hallucinating? Did I just see a kid upstairs in

been working too many