Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 465

"Yeah, he reached out to me too. The kid's got a way with words, should be fine."

Ludwik leaned on her car window, his towering presence offering an unspoken reassurance. "Are you going in, or should I? Grandma's inside; she went back to the Lippert place this afternoon and just got here." It wouldn't look good if they both went in together.

"I'll go in!"

Understanding her urgency to see her son, Ludwik stepped aside to let her through.

His gaze softened a fraction. "Call me if you need anything. I'll be right here."

As Whitney rushed in, she caught a glimpse of him lighting a cigarette, his watchful eyes following her sprint towards the mansion.

"Danny?!" Whitney burst in, calling out.

In the Sheldon family's living room, Camilla, the venerable matriarch, had just arrived and was inquiring about something.

Holly, with a plastered smile, appeared clueless. "A problem? The young master has been playing in the backyard. What trouble could he possibly find? Dear Mrs. Sheldon, perhaps a cup of tea first..." "Holly! The child got in touch with me; he said he fell into the pond!" Whitney bypassed the small talk and got straight to the point.

"Ludwik called me, said Danny fell into the water. Seems like it's true!" Camilla's expression turned grave.

A flicker of discomfort crossed Holly's face before she quickly replaced it with a smile, looking at Whitney. "And you are...? How does Danny know to contact you?"

Her question was clearly designed to stir doubt in the elderly lady.

Whitney, aware of Holly's game, retorted with a cold laugh, "Danny and I are close. And you're here worrying about formalities when he's in trouble at the Sheldon place?"

Camilla, catching Whitney's urgency, didn't dwell on the details. Her voice carried a hint of authority, "Mrs. Sheldon, have your staff check where Danny is on the Sheldon property, now!"

tied up in the

a look of

almost convincing. "The young master hasn't actually drowned,

and dashed towards the

servant, and Holly followed at

featured a large pond, a scenic

fish something

"Danny!"

here." Danny's weak voice came from

dangerously sharp; a wrong move could send

to get you," Whitney instructed, her

safe, but Molly, the one who

Molly, worthless as ever...

who got what she deserved," Danny said with righteous indignation, peering down at the struggling girl in the water. "Did you find

heaved a drenched

Molly's weak cries

was taken aback. "Molly? What brought you to the

signs of water ingestion and started CPR to expel any excess water. Danny, pale but comforted in his mother's arms, felt a wave of

Suffering from a severe case of water inhalation and a gashed forehead from the

her cane and turned to Holly. "Mrs. Sheldon, when did Molly arrive at the Sheldon

you left for the Lippert place. I thought she came to play with Danny,

her eyes narrowing before she turned to her son.

was playing by myself when Molly stormed in, looking for trouble like she

even near the pond initially. She started shoving me towards it. The first shove didn't do the trick,

her servant push me. That's when we started