Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 899

Tiana felt like she was being pricked by a thousand needles, but she couldnously mocked herself. Wasn't Ashton drifting further away exactly what she wanted? Why should she ache for him?

Just as she predicted, Ashton and Endora were tangled up in a mess that seemed impossible to untangle, all thanks to Endora's numerous schemes.

The child she was carrying was doomed never to recognize Ashton as a father. It was a connection without destiny.

"Tiana, are you okay?" Whitney popped her head into the car.

"I'm fine. It's not like Endora's suicide attempt was aimed at me. Whoever she was targeting should just marry her," Tiana joked without any real humor, her smile more pained than her tears. Whitney could see right through her.

Ashton, overhearing from the front seat, erupted, "Tiana, have you lost your mind? You think just because you're carrying-"

Whitney quickly stuffed a corn cob into Ashton's mouth, silencing him with a stern warning glance.

Fine, Tiana was now untouchable, a sacred cow not to be antagonized lest she decides to terminate Parker's unborn child in a moment of despair.

Parker was truly embroiled in a mess, with Endora clinging to him like a leech that couldn't be shaken off.

He watched anxiously.

-

In the Doonan Hospital in Banyan City.

The midday sun was abundant, but its warmth failed to penetrate the gloom of the hospital office, where the atmosphere was as cold as a freezer, especially with Parker's arrival deepening the chill. Parker disembarked from his helicopter, striding into the hospital lobby with a composed demeanor.

Winston stood at the office door, flanked by the mothers of Parker and Barclay, and other significant family elders.

Winston's secretaries and bodyguards hovered nearby.

swiftly found Endora's weeping parents outside the

turned icy, filled with

at?" Winston was the

smile on his lips as he

Winston surveyed him coldly.

a sudden 'thud,' Parker's mother's face went

stagger under the blow, a trickle of blood at

mom stepped

and Alice, alerted by the commotion, came over, feigning concern and blocking Winston, "Parker's back, huh! Winston,

can't seriously harm my son-in-law!" Alice's eyes brimmed with

everyone's here, let me make things clear. Dad, Endora

only due to her manipulations that I delayed making it

come back today to clarify the

of you! She's lying in the surgery room right now, between life and death! You can't do this, Winston, this isn't right!" Alice

reddened with anger, "Winston, we've always thought highly of Parker. Three

Endora and

years ago she miscarried for

how will our Endora ever marry?

that

"Endora claims she miscarried three years ago, but I never

not raised three years ago suddenly comes

I believe

caused by the miscarriage? That medical report was nothing but a fake, bought from a doctor in Emperor

undergoes a thorough examination. Let's see if she truly can't bear children for the rest of her life!" Alice's face paled slightly at his

coercion, had secretly discovered Endora's scheme with the Emperor

by Cato,

her 'suicide' attempt, Endora had instructed her: as long as she insisted on having miscarried for Parker, the Doonan family wouldn't dare force her to undergo examination. Moreover, she truly had miscarried for another man; even if examined, she could bluff her way through!