Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 327

Whitney could barely stand as the shock made her body sway. She turned around, blinking in disbelief at the sight of Sammy lying in bed.

"Danny, you've got to stop scaring Mommy like this! Her little heart, though strong, can't take our shenanigans. Come here, let's explain everything to her. She won't be mad at us." Sammy's voice was weak but carried a playful tone.

Whitney clenched her delicate hands, her eyes wide and filled with tears and surprise, struggling to keep her voice gentle, "My child, you are, you're my..."

"I'm your other son, Mommy, waaah..."

Danny, seeing her beckoning, scampered over like a kitten finally heeding its mother's call, plunging into Whitney's embrace.

Tiana, watching from behind, teared up, sharing in Whitney's joy.

"What in the world is going on? So, you're Danny?" Whitney realized that 'Danny', whom Ludwik had been calling out for, wasn't Sammy. She had misunderstood, but how big of a misunderstanding was it? A colossal secret?

"Mom, how can you even ask what's going on? We're your sons, both of us. Didn't you know?" Sammy looked at her, his eyes twinkling with amusement as he gently rolled his eyes.

her heart pounding with

without ever meeting him. Dad didn't know about Sammy, just like you didn't know about

narrated the bewildering events of the past days with a

their eyes widening with each twist and turn of the tale, emotions

as she looked at

she had given birth to twins in the wild. Twins, indeed. Yet, from prenatal checks to delivery, every medical report suggested she was carrying only one child. She never diagnosed herself properly, attributing the unusual size of her belly to excessive amniotic

Furious at the thought, Whitney's heart

Diner when Ludwik had

babies behind that night haunted her, an unforgivable oversight. "It's okay, Mom. Everything's in the past. I was mad at you for not finding me, your little treasure. But Taryn told me

of Ludwik, while Sammy seemed to radiate warmth and wisdom well beyond his

soul," Whitney murmured, grateful for the kindness

voice filled with concern, "You ventured into Everwood Villa Estate, to expose Elaine and stand up for Danny at daycare... Do you

his youthful eyes flashing with a sharpness unusual for his age, "I wanted to get back at them. Seeing Dad fooled by that woman made me so mad." "You're both just three years old..." Whitney sighed, her heart heavy with

Sammy, thinking it was me, went without any suspicion. Then, out of nowhere, we were kidnapped. Elaine pretended to be a victim too, but she was actually orchestrating the whole thing, tormenting us... Mom, she snatched away Sammy's asthma inhaler and repeatedly dunked him into filthy water. In the end, Sammy had an asthma attack. She tossed him into a tiny, sealed hole, leaving him to suffocate... I was just a kid, powerless

for us in the nick of time. And somehow, Mom had a feeling,