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.

and her smile

the bag in Whitney's hand and she coldly ordered her bodyguard, "Search

locking the door

up to a chair, grabbing the teapot on

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

a

teapot down and tossing her

over and

bodyguard pulled out a pocket knife and

bodyguard turned, handing the items to Florence.

sinisterly at the voice recorder. "Destroy

crushed

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

squinted. "Always in such a rush. Let's talk about Ludwik, shall

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

hear the scorn in her voice, the insinuation that

twisted.

you have? You're already divorced! Do you think Ludwik truly loves you? If he did, how come he got me pregnant? I'm not ashamed to tell you- Every time we'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 see myself as a

like needles, painfully piercing

yet now

warned her, suggesting Florence's pregnancy was suspicious, perhaps

from Florence's lips

and

indifferent since seeing the news, but

mocking Florence, "Oh, you're such a success, happy to be a stand-in. I've never seen such filth proudly displayed. After all, only someone who confuses their face

about you?

a failure? You keep hoping Ludwik will turn around, 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. He let me go! Jason treasures the Lippert family's grandchild in my womb, not caring for your sons! His

a cup beside