Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 861

She glared at Natalie, who stood there with a gentle smile on her face.

As Jason descended the stairs, his arm instinctively reached out to support Natalie. She shyly dodged, her cheeks flushing with embarrassment.

Jason found her skittish demeanor amusing, unlike any woman's reaction to him before. Of course, it wasn't like he had much experience with women in the first place.

"I didn't mean anything by it. Just didn't want you to trip," he explained in a low voice.

It was then that Natalie awkwardly extended her wrist to him, quickly explaining in a soft voice, "Mr. Lippert, I didn't think you had any other intentions... I'm much better now, you don't have to go out of your way to be polite."

"Where did you get the idea that I'm inconvenienced?"

Jason frowned slightly.

Natalie's cheeks turned a deeper shade of red. "Was it Ludwik who asked you to check on me? I know it's hard being caught in the middle because of your father, but you really don't have to do this."

"It wasn't him who sent me."

Jason looked down at her, a bit more seriously.

Natalie looked up slightly.

Jason cleared his throat, somewhat embarrassed to speak further, covering his mouth with his hand, "Danny and Sammy have been staying at the Lippert family home for three days. Whitney might pick them up today. Since Whitney and Ludwik will both be there, I thought... maybe you'd like to join? After all, you're Ludwik's mother, and their grandmother."

Grandmother?

She was their grandmother.

Jason was

but she dared not dwell on it too

in her wandering thoughts, forcing a small smile, "So that's the

come to the Lippert family home?" Jason

Lippert, it's not appropriate. The matriarch and your family will be

about it. You're a benefactor of the Lippert family, have

at

deal to save the Lippert Resort, a crisis she helped him navigate through. She was still bashful, "That was

didn't intend to help the Lippert family at the time. I know, those funds were meant for your

son

heart warmed at his praise. After all, she was Ludwik's mother, and she had wanted to

heart for too many years,

Now, even more so.

on!" Jason looked towards the night sky, asking again in a low

shedding the frailty of her prolonged illness. Though still slender, her hair, a mix of black and white, flowed over a simple but elegant dress. She must have been a beauty

swept over her

come,"

was about to signal the Lippert

and sultry, called out

sight of Thea, dressed to the

Thea's flamboyant approach, feeling a pang of sadness. She looked down at herself, a sense of inferiority creeping in. Years

back, assuming Jason's heart might waver

Thea

eyes soft but determined as she looked at

in her high heels, closed the distance quickly, her perfume mingling with the night