Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 682

"Ludwik, did you actually record it? Record us... you jerk!"

Whitney's mind was stuck on the video, her eyes red with fury, her body trembling uncontrollably, overwhelmed with humiliation. "You're such a scoundrel, this is too much. I will never forgive you for this, ever." Ludwik knew he had hurt her again.

He sneered coldly, "I don't care anymore. I knew you'd never forgive me.

But I didn't want you to be fooled. Bryce, making his mark in Emperor City, do you have any idea what kind of forces he's leaning on?

Don't be deceived by his lovestruck facade. How do you know he's not playing a long game, pretending to be all sweet and caring, but harboring ulterior motives?"

"Enough already. Bryce isn't like that.

Besides, he's doing pretty well for himself, what would he possibly want from me?"

"The Sheldon Group! No matter how his company grows, it needs the backing of a powerful dynasty.

He could also be after your affection, waiting for you to fall for him, and then, when you're vulnerable, he could strike back at you, tarnish you!"

Ludwik's words sent an inexplicable chill down Whitney's spine.

Still, she retorted, "Ludwik, you won't divide us."

Annoyed, she hung up the phone!

Standing on the balcony, the chilly night air made her shiver even more. Wrapping her arms around herself, Whitney returned to her room, where Danny was already soundly asleep. She walked out to the study, where Sammy was still tapping away.

Looking at her phone, Whitney couldn't calm down.

Finally, she retreated to the secluded bathroom, opened the video Ludwik had sent, and put on her headphones.

In just a few seconds, Whitney's face turned red, a wave of incredulity and rage washing over her.

The video was dark, illuminated only by moonlight streaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows, reflecting off the ocean, giving the room a romantic ambiance...

There she was with Ludwik, wrapped in a quilt, their silhouettes entwined like vines, passionately inseparable. Ludwik's perfect torso was exposed, while she hid in his embrace, her hands trembling as she clung to his neck. Her voice... sounded so tender... almost as if she was enjoying it.

Impossible!

She thought she was heartbroken and desperate that night.

reality, or maybe not, but it made it seem like she and Ludwik were deeply in love, and she was relishing it. Bryce... had he

Whitney shivered violently, feeling mortified. But then she

mentioned it,

much he loved her,

it now, Bryce seemed too magnanimous, unsettlingly

another man on their wedding

it might also be due to a pitiful,

the latter category, then she was truly

if it was

tightly in her quilt,

wasn't just an attempt to sow

-

The next morning.

was still

out thieving last night? You're usually not one to

mom would discover he hadn't slept at all, could only muster a tearful climb

in

head; he had been

to that scoundrel

house's surveillance, he saw Florence and

villains together, definitely up

Florence out of the company, and he didn't want the wicked woman to

fibbed, having gone to the study for

"Internet junkie," Danny commented.

her eyes helplessly, "And whose idea was it to involve your brother in

knack for computers, all of dad's smarts went to him," Danny

ado, Whitney

deep in discussion about Bryce's

Whitney found

streamed through the window, casting a warm glow on his handsome,

briefly clouded with doubt, until Bryce turned to call

why the stare? Time

admiring how handsome Mr. Lutz is," Tiana

as he stood up to serve Whitney and Danny breakfast. Dressed in a sweater and casual black pants, he seemed harmless, even

was like the

could a person really act as if nothing had happened, unaffected by that kind of