Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 378

"What the heck is going on?" Ludwik demanded, his voice deep, his gaze filled with confusion and a hint of menace.

Taryn shivered under his intense presence, knowing well how protective he was of the family matriarch. Stepping in front of Danny, Taryn struggled to articulate, "Sir, it's like this. After the lady of the house fell into a coma three years ago, before Miss Emsworth left Banyan City, she handed me a pill, instructing me to secretly administer it to the lady... I've been doing it for three years..."

Ludwik was in disbelief.

Just then, Natalie coughed up blood from beneath her oxygen mask.

"Grandma!" the family doctor exclaimed.

Ludwik's expression hardened, "What's happening now?"

"It might be because she just woke up! We can't rule out any risks with her condition. Mr. Lippert, our home medical setup isn't equipped like a hospital. We're good for convalescence, not for treatment. We need to get her to a major hospital now!" Ludwik snapped to attention, "What are we waiting for? Let's move her, now!"

"Careful, careful!" the doctor urged as nurses were called, and the household prepared for the emergency transfer. Ludwik instantly called the director of Skyfaith Hospital, ensuring everything was in order for their arrival.

After everyone had left, Danny, with worry knitting his brow, followed closely behind. Something about his father's reaction to the news that mom had been giving grandma the mysterious pills seemed off. He needed to share this potentially good news with his mom immediately.

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joy, she had just been talking to Tiana about how Natalie might wake up soon. Was this

asking her son, "Danny, is

was frantic, and they've just taken her to the hospital. Mom, you should head there directly,

the one to administer the medicine to Natalie, a concoction of over a hundred complex components. She

Skyfaith Hospital's emergency surgery room, Ludwik stood tall, his expression grave. His mother had just awakened and then vomited blood, necessitating a barrage of

three years to have some internal bleeding..." the family doctor speculated, just as Nolan Parker and Ashton

Natalie?" they

replied, his lips pressed

gaze landing on Whitney. He remembered Taryn's unfinished story back at the

scrambling for the right words, "Sir, please don't get the wrong idea about Ms. Valentine! If anything, you owe her a

off and calling the family

the transplant, she became comatose. You've told me her condition was stable every day. Whitney, why

gaze was sharp and

and you didn't believe me. I stayed to uncover the truth. I took your mom's blood samples and had them tested at several labs, which revealed neurotoxins in her bloodstream before her kidney surgery, leading to rapid organ failure. After the surgery, to avoid detection, someone cleared the toxins but kept administering small doses daily, undetectable by your family doctor! Out of necessity, I developed a pill for Taryn to give her, to remove the accumulating neurotoxins and repair a third of the brain damage, slowly rebuilding her bodily functions. And as you can see, instead of the predicted three years, she's made it to three and a half. I returned home recently and switched her medication to a more potent formula, which I've developed over these three years. Look, in just over a month, she woke up. This proves my intentions were good; I just wanted to save her, just

had neurotoxins in her body?" he turned to the family

head, "Ms. Valentine, I've been diligent in my duties. I didn't detect any toxins in the lady's body three

managed to evade detection by

bush, implying it was Elaine living at Everwood Villa Estate then? Whitney, remember, it was Elaine who

rolled her eyes at him like he