Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 648

Grace coldly walked past Heidi without a glance.

Heidi's heart ached with reluctance, but thinking of her own future, she glanced at Jason and felt compelled to chase after Grace, leaving Jason behind. "Mom, mom, I'm totally lost here. Give me a moment to think..." Jason's lips quivered with anger as he lay on the ground, his fists pounding the floor in frustration.

He watched in agony as Heidi abandoned him, just like his daughter had discarded her father.

The daughter he had raised turned out to be just like her mother, an ungrateful traitor!

Such betrayal, so infuriating.

He had once been proud of his life, but now it seemed like a joke played on him by others.

Crawling towards the window, his heart felt as dead as ashes.

Just then, the door creaked slightly open-

As Jason struggled to his feet and gathered his strength to open the window, a frail figure rushed behind him, embracing him with a mix of fear and courage, pleading, "Please, don't!" The force of her approach sent both tumbling to the ground.

Sophie hit the ground hard but held onto Jason tightly, preventing him from falling out of the window.

"Who are you?!" Jason turned around, alert.

In the dim light, he saw the silhouette of a middle-aged woman, her body thin and fingers delicate.

Her lips were pale, her hair neatly tied back, and her delicate features were visibly ill, yet her youthful beauty was still evident.

Jason's gaze lingered, recognizing the shadow of Ludwik in her appearance.

like, after all, theirs was a marriage marred by

"Is it you?"

sorry, I shouldn't have come," Sophie murmured, her voice as faint as a mosquito.

you can't afford another fall. If you don't mind, let me help you to your bed and call a doctor for you," she offered in a voice

heavily,

signal, rushed in to help

by the bed, keeping a distance from Jason. She glanced at the door, noting the irony that the bedroom of Mr. Lippert, the patriarch of the Lippert family, was left unattended. The Lippert family's relatives seemed

stealing glances at Jason's proud figure and quickly spoke up when she caught his probing look, "I didn't mean to intrude. If you want me to leave, I will. The

to Emperor City for surgery and Jason had refused to see her,

outside the door, hearing how Thea and others belittled Jason, wanting to help but couldn't let Jason face humiliation because of her, so she held back until it seemed he might take drastic actions. "Stay," Jason

Sophie froze.

in

welled up

"The Lippert family is falling apart, and no one even bothered to

aimed at aggravating you with that man from the Patrick family, hoping to drive you to your end. The stress could worsen your condition, but you must think of Ludwik, think

silent for a moment, then coldly said,

hidden in the dim light, regretting

emotion for a man who had always been seen as

saved

deading to a

of. Despite his lack of love for Thea or any woman, his life was dedicated to his family's legacy. Yet, he had unknowingly nurtured a

the Lippert family in ruins and Ludwik disgraced, Jason realized he was the one who had doomed

hearing Jason's suppressed, crumbling breath. She had always seen him as a deity, too sacred

now, he was

oxygen mask and fainted, overwhelmed by

need

out, Natalie's heart