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?"

car, urging him to drive faster to

tall figure walked alone, the moonlight casting

a neighborhood of wealth and grandeur,

glanced over, her feelings

hero in her heart was now reduced to walking home from

Impossible. Where was Felix?

lift?" Shane asked,

can't afford a driver.

smirked and

then, Whitney couldn't help 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

the man collapsed to the

seeing things. She tapped Shane urgently, "Check the rearview, did Ludwik just faint?" Shane looked and

Whitney's conflicted face, he

of Ludwik's cunning.

speed up then, this might just be another of Ludwik's

"Wait...!"

his breath, exasperated with her indecision. "What

go back and check. If he really did faint and we're the only ones around, the police might end

fabricating

trying not to laugh, turned the car

his attire disheveled but his posture still somehow

There was none.

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

aback but remembering

Ludwik's shirt revealed a dark bruise on

might have inhaled debris, could be blocking his

frowned, "His Adam's apple isn't moving, could be an

two options: tracheotomy or mouth-to-mouth to suck out

"We don't have the tools for a tracheotomy. What are you