Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 554

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"Sammy..." Whitney's voice was choked, barely a whisper.

"Sammy?" Tiana's eyes widened. "What are you talking about, Whitney? What happened to Sammy? Did he...?"

Just then, Whitney's phone buzzed with an anonymous text: [Come alone, I'm giving you a chance.]

She opened it, read the message, and then it self-destructed.

Her gaze turned icy, her body's warmth fading as she forced calmness. "It's nothing. I just need to step out for a bit, grab some meds."

"I'll come with you! I'm worried. You were delirious with fever just now."

"No need, Tiana. Just wait for me in the office."

Whitney went back, grabbed a pocket knife and a voice recorder from her drawer, and tucked them into her bag before heading downstairs alone. Behind the company's building, next to the dumpster, there was a taxi waiting. The driver got out, confirmed Whitney's identity, and invited her in. Whitney took a deep breath of the cold air. Florence was taking extreme precautions for this meeting.

Her mind was filled with thoughts of Sammy. Was Florence finally going to admit to kidnapping him?

Her gaze was fixed straight ahead...

The driver opened the door to the café.

The place was deserted.

Following the driver upstairs, Whitney entered a private room far from any windows.

Florence was there, casually dabbing at her mouth with a napkin and coughing lightly. Seeing Whitney's pale face, she smiled slowly. "Sister, I thought you'd be too scared to face me." "The kidnapper of my son, the accomplice to your mother shooting your own father. Why wouldn't I come to see you? After all, I'm not the one who will be facing retribution." Whitney stood at the doorway, her words clear and sharp.

face darkened, and her

bag in Whitney's hand and she coldly ordered her

the door

backed up to a chair, grabbing the teapot

playful, "Whitney, I'd advise you to cooperate. Otherwise, I won't say a word about what you want to know! And you

lazily, a smile playing

her jaw, setting the teapot down and tossing her

bodyguard came over

finding nothing on her person, the bodyguard pulled out

bodyguard turned, handing the items to Florence. "She

at the

recorder was crushed in the bodyguard's

her eyebrows raised as she sat down. "Sister, you don't have to treat me like a fool. Now, let's sit down and have a

"Always in such a rush. Let's

him go. The money lost in a cesspit, I've long stopped caring about. You can have him if you like, as long as you can stomach it." Whitney's voice was indifferent. Her words not only demeaned Ludwik but mocked Florence

hear the scorn in her voice, the insinuation that

twisted. "You're

together, even though he moans your name, he's always so happy! He can't resist the youth, beauty, and purity of my body. I don't

was like needles,

yet

warned her, suggesting Florence's pregnancy was

Florence's lips

and

since seeing the news, but Florence's smiling face now felt like a

I've never seen such filth proudly displayed. After

about you?

take you and the kids seriously, right? But what happened? You told him his mother's Teukemia was my doing, so what! Knowing I'm pregnant, he couldn't bear to trouble me.

breathing grew heavy, she grabbed a cup beside her and splashed its contents