Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 882

"I like her, and what's it to you? You're not my fiancée anymore."

Parker didn't deny it, his thin lips forming a cold line, "Endora, if you had any sense, you wouldn't be so shameless. Keeping on pestering me like this, I'll have no choice but to cut you off without mercy. I've already called my folks to call off our engagement. Don't get yourself ostracized by the Melford family in Banyan City!"

Parker's words were measured, but Endora could sense his icy detachment. She pouted, tears brimming in her eyes, "My love for you is unrequited! No matter how you treat me, I can't give up, because letting go of a love that deep is just too hard. I've come to terms with it, I don't mind that you like Tiana, but... she's pregnant now. I found out at the clinic this morning. I bumped into her at the OB-GYN. I was shocked, too. How could Tiana just get pregnant like that? She's always been so careless... I didn't dare ask her whose it is... Maybe it's your brother Barclay's, huh?"

Parker was beyond listening at this point!

He stormed out of the café, his mind reeling with Endora's words: She's really pregnant! Tiana... how could you, how dare you? Nothing had ever knocked him down before, but now his face was a mask of icy distance, like a walking corpse. With whom, did she sleep?

He kicked the car door in frustration, his fist hitting the metal until his knuckles bled, "Damn it, Tiana. I liked you so much, and you just... what did you take my feelings for?" Parker couldn't bear the blow.

He got into the car, gripping the steering wheel tightly, the vehicle spinning around as if flying on the road. The glaring sunlight filtered through his aviator sunglasses, casting shadows over his sharp nose, his handsome features shadowed with gloom. He refused to believe she had been with another man.

If she had, it had to be with him! Ever since coming back from Saltland Island, he'd been haunted by vivid dreams of her.

The realism of those dreams, where they were intimate, had even made him confront her about it. That night at Delight Mansion, when he stayed over, he almost got some truths out of her. But then Endora ruined everything.

Tiana, that ungrateful woman, even said she didn't like him!

Parker had his pride. He couldn't grovel, so he cut ties and spent the following days bringing down Bryce with Ludwik, tormented by the ordeal.

Now that it was over, and he'd shaken off Endora, he found out... she was pregnant.

Wait...

pinned her down, only stopping when Tiana asked if he'd take

lightning, nearly causing him

lost his memory, could something have happened between them? Could it be that after regaining

lost memories, forget what happened during the

that's why he felt so close to her upon returning to Emperor

been with her, and now she was found to be

sunlight, suddenly unafraid, his heart filling with excitement and an

the accelerator, deciding to give himself another chance, to confront her face-to-face.

so, he was ready to take responsibility, for a

fantasy, Parker grew more

his tall frame filled with a mix of cool and warm emotions he couldn't quite identify,

some forgotten corner of his memory

What a joyous occasion.

man with glasses drawing looks from the nurses at

I find Tiana, the OB-GYN patient? Tell me, and I'll

bribe

some nudging among themselves, one of them spoke,

then replied with a smirk, "I might

Ms. Melford's

yet, but maybe soon

but

for the first time how difficult it was to find room

Would she be startled, freeze up? After all, they hadn't spoken for weeks due