Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 748

Hating him was better than him being absent from her heart, she reasoned.

At that moment, with a satisfied curve to his lips, he earnestly declared, "Whitney, I just want to tell you something I'm never giving up again. It was the thought of you that pulled me through the brink of death. From now on, I'll lead the Lipperts back to glory, and we'll topple the Patricks and beat Bryce at his own game.

I'm going to win you back from Bryce.

I love you, through life and death. I was wrong before, but I won't make the same mistakes again."

Ludwik enunciated every word, then turned to leave without lingering, his handsome silhouette breathtaking under the moonlight. His aura of strength and stability seemed to be woven into his very bones. Despite his injuries, he walked away with an air of grace and power.

Whitney watched him go, her mind a whirlwind.

What did he say? He's going to win her back from Bryce?

That devil... has he lost his mind?

A Lamborghini pulled up in front of her, and Shane, clearly impatient, honked the horn. "Everyone's gone. What, you're just going to stand there drooling?"

Whitney glared back at him. "Excuse me?"

Since when had she been drooling?

Shane tapped on the steering wheel, teasing, "Alright, change of topic then. What did he want to tell you? Did he realize after a brush with death that you're the most important thing to him and now wants to rekindle the romance or something?"

Whitney rolled her eyes, wishing Shane would just drive away. She'd think he had been eavesdropping if he hadn't been in the car.

Seeing her speechless, Shane wore a 'just as I thought' expression of gossip.

"So, what do you think? Getting back together or no?"

"Stop it. I'm a married woman, remember?"

irritably as she got into the car, urging him to drive faster to avoid

over there" Shane nodded towards the roadside where Ludwik's tall figure walked alone, the moonlight

was a neighborhood of wealth and grandeur, not a

glanced over, her

her heart was now reduced to walking home from a party

Impossible. Where was Felix?

a lift?"

believe he can't afford a driver. Maybe it's

Shane smirked

but look back, only to see the swiftly passing man, showing no pitiful longing to hitch a ride. He walked with a dignity untouched by his fall, his steps

man collapsed

the rearview,

slowed down. Seeing Whitney's conflicted

torn, wary of Ludwik's cunning. Could

this might just be another of Ludwik's schemes." Shane hit

"Wait...!"

his breath, exasperated with her

If he really did faint and

blushed, fabricating a

laugh, turned the car

finding him collapsed in a heap, his attire disheveled but his posture still somehow elegant. His eyes were closed, his lips pale. "Ludwik..." Whitney sensed this was no act. She checked

There was none.

trouble!" Whitney looked up at Shane, hastily tying her hair back. "He might be

remembering Whitney's

dark

said he was hit by a beam, might

"His Adam's apple isn't moving, could

are two options: tracheotomy or mouth-to-mouth to

for a tracheotomy. What