Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 477

Chapter 477

"I've got your back. You need to deal with these injuries right now, take your medication, and find a way to calm down!"

Florence tried to hold back her tears, but hope flickered in her eyes as she looked up. "Ludwik, are you really going to help me win the contest? Wouldn't that go against your principles?" Did he even have a choice now?

Those sharp, profound eyes of his looked down at Florence's pale and frail face, asking softly, "Do you really not care about the shares? Don't want to take over the Sheldon Group?" The room fell silent all of a sudden.

He wasn't looking at her, but Florence felt the chill in his gaze piercing through her face.

She had always hidden her intentions well. Had he sensed something?

He was the man in charge of the Lippert Group, a smart one at that.

Florence clenched her fists, forcing a bitter smile. "Ludwik, did you forget? I'm dying."

Ludwik's gaze hardened. In that case, her ambition was moot.

The man frowned, his tone cool and indifferent. "Just take your medicine and get your wounds treated."

"Okay!" Florence managed a forced smile.

He got up to go outside for a smoke, and as his tall figure disappeared at the door of the room, Florence, looking at the doctor bandaging her ankle, let a malicious smile creep across her face hidden by her eyelids. She had burned her ankle on purpose.

Step by step, piece by piece, setting the stage for Whitney's downfall tomorrow!

Because Whitney would never understand why Ludwik 'cared' so much for her.

She knew he had principles and wouldn't easily bend the rules for her, so she had to make her physical and emotional condition appear dire. Ludwik would have no choice...

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Sunlight pierced through the office blinds, casting shadows.

Whitney opened her red and tired eyes; she had only managed half an hour of sleep, working through the night till 9 in the morning.

with two steaming cups of coffee and breakfast. "Whitney,

"Okay."

perfect jewelry proposal on her desk, a

hard! You were practically alone for the

amazed me! I bet there's no proposal better than yours. Florence's amateur attempts don't even stand a chance." Whitney took a deep breath, her right eye

manager called, asking Whitney to bring the

the general manager and two senior judges seated at the

then, Ludwik's imposing figure

cast a long shadow, followed by an aura of cold

stood up, welcoming him warmly. "Welcome, Mr. Lippert, to our

a beat. He was part of the

at him with a wary

his look from above was cold

furrowed, and he took his

checking her

Florence's tweet from

both set in

she was covered in a

his long fingers gripping the pen under the light, the half-visible side of his face serious as he bit on a

late to help me- He doesn't want me to be sick, told me to rest and

With what?

what could

chill ran down Whitney's spine as she

submitted your proposal yet?"

belated arrival, frailly seated in a wheelchair, clutching

let's let the

herself in, placing

secretary handed both proposals to the

sipping his black

opened Whitney's proposal first,

upon seeing Florence's, the judges were

is outstanding, far surpassing the assistant

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