Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 391

She stormed over and, standing on her toes, slapped Ashton across the face!

Valerie, mustering all her strength, pulled Elaine away and yelled at Ashton, "Ludwik finally woke up to the truth, and I won't let you mess things up. Ashton, if you don't let Elaine go today, I'm filing for divorce, today! You jerk, you don't even get a minute to consider." Ashton glared at Valerie, his eyes shooting daggers. The usually cold woman, now fierce and determined, was shaking all over, yet in her fury, she seemed even more captivating. But the word 'divorce' stunned Ashton. Valerie wanted a divorce?

"Elaine, you're coming with us!" Felix and his team barged in, quickly subdued Elaine, and dragged her out of the Fuller Mansion.

"Ashton, Ashton save me!" Elaine saw Ashton hesitating at Valerie's threat of divorce and was infuriated. But Ludwik gave her no chance to escape, as his bodyguards forcefully took her to the car.

"Ashton, for what she did to my mother, dying a thousand times wouldn't be enough. You better not make this worse," Ludwik warned, his eyes cold. Ashton was visibly shaken. Elaine turned pale, truly frightened now. She thought Ashton could protect her, stand up to Ludwik, but he was just another fool!

The car door opened with a whoosh. The bodyguards led Elaine into a stark white room, heavy with the scent of disinfectant. As Elaine was fretting, Ludwik entered with icy steps. His expressionless face sent shivers down her spine.

"Ludwik, listen to me, I didn't

harvest my mother's kidney

her lip, defiant, "Ludwik, you can't condemn me just on your godmother's word. She's just woken up, her mind could be muddled. Maybe Whitney has been using her acupuncture to tamper with her memory, framing me! Whitney knows those dark arts; I told you three years ago she hypnotized you, it must

shoe. She stormed in and without a word,

fooled Ludwik for so long? I'm just glad I got here in time. Some accounts need to be settled today. You framed

it Elaine, who can only poison? No, Ludwik, it was me. She couldn't cure you, so she sent me

many times she had tried to explain, but he wouldn't listen. Whitney, with a bitter laugh, stared at Elaine, "Your 'kidney donation' was a ploy that won all of Ludwik's trust, making him blind to your actions. That led to you using my supposed affair with Bryce to drive a wedge between

Ludwik's eyes; he had trusted Elaine too much, believing her claims that the child would have autism, he wanted Whitney to get better but also

the night I fled, I and Tiana found the kidney donor girl, planning to expose Elaine. But Elaine found out, chased us down, and in front of us, killed that innocent girl! Ludwik,

desperate, still denied everything, "Ludwik,

responded. You didn't want the child, and my despair and hatred for you grew!" Ludwik shook his head in disbelief, "The night you supposedly 'jumped into the sea', I never got your calls. I was