Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 387

The car took a hidden route around half the mountain, and a young girl got out, umbrella in hand, walking towards an old two-story house. Natalie was laid down on a bed by Drew, completely unconscious, her lips turning blue, with two doctors beside her, drawing blood for tests.

"We can't let her die just yet. Ms. Sheldon wants to understand the old lady's health condition," Myra whispered, her instructions cloaked in shadow. The doctors nodded in agreement.

The girl covered her nose with a handkerchief, standing away from the window.

Soon, one of the doctors approached with the preliminary blood test results, appearing surprised, "Ms. Sheldon, this Natalie... her blood type, it's RH negative 'panda blood,' and it matches yours..." Myra was taken aback.

The girl moved the handkerchief away, revealing her pale features.

Her lips curled into a slight smile, her eyes twinkling with something unspoken.

She touched her wrist, where her veins pulsed under her skin, and chuckled softly, "What a coincidence, RH negative 'panda blood"..."

It seemed to Myra that she could see a shimmer in her eyes.

The girl turned slowly, asking the two senior doctors who had been following her, "Have you figured out what's wrong with her?"

The doctors listed Natalie's ailments.

The girl glanced at the blood type report, then at the old woman, lowering her voice slightly, "Pity there's nothing fatal... give her a spinal injection..."

Only the doctors heard what followed, shivering at the thought.

Myra's expression remained unchanged.

The doctors went about their tasks.

The girl then opened her clear, translucent umbrella, gently instructing Drew, "Avoid Elaine. Keep an eye on the time and take the old lady back where she came from. Make sure Mr. Lippert finds his mother..." The girl vanished into the night, as if she had never been there, leaving no trace.

Myra knew the young lady had made a big move on the chessboard...

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Elaine rushed to the dilapidated house halfway up the mountain.

The place was empty; Sammy was gone, and there was no sign of Natalie!

Devin, having treated his wounds, followed her and said, "It was so unexpected, Elaine. Some people appeared out of nowhere, clearly well-trained bodyguards from a prominent family, and they injured us. After I was dragged down the mountain, I faintly heard a car and a child's cries.

By the time I got there, the black car had driven away, but I'm sure that cry was from the kid we kidnapped."

pale, her

intercepted on the

just secretly contacted Delphine, and her mother said Ludwik was still

it wasn't Ludwik who had come

Who were these people?

empty house, felt panic rising from

realized that her kidnapping of Natalie

plan to intercept

her, a case of the mantis stalking the cicada,

didn't know who it was, but clearly,

she hadn't planned to kill Sammy! The kidnapping was a desperate move of

keep quiet, to destroy the evidence of her crime, so that no matter

bargaining chip

her only chance at

disappeared on her

whereabouts were

entire mountain if you have to, but find Sammy and Natalie!" Then, Delphine called, her voice full of worry,

on the move, and the police

teeth, her face ashen, and had

scene of the crime, she

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left, driving back, Devin called, "Elaine, while we were searching the mountains, Natalie mysteriously returned. She's now in the basement of that broken house, and these people behind this... they're like ghosts..." Elaine was

intact, but unconscious!" Devin

finding her voice, "I'm coming back. Natalie has

What about the child?"

"The child hasn't returned!"

too late, Elaine, there's a helicopter overhead. Probably Ludwik

tightly, her lips bleeding

a rock and a hard place.

going back now, she'd

intercepted Natalie, delaying her. It

Natalie but hadn't killed her. What

guys get out of there. Leave

a pale-faced

still have a slim chance.

down Elaine's spine. She quickly typed, Who are you? What have you

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watched as the young lady slowly

smirked and threw the