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.

weeping parents

icy,

are you looking at?" Winston

mocking smile on his lips as he greeted respectfully,

Winston surveyed him coldly.

with a sudden 'thud,'

stagger under the blow, a trickle

Parker's mom stepped

concern and

harm my son-in-law!"

your son-in-law? Now that everyone's here, let me make things clear. Dad, Endora and I

her manipulations that I delayed making

come back today to clarify the

She's lying in the surgery room right

her back, also reddened with anger, "Winston, we've always thought highly of Parker. Three years of engagement, we've treated him

of Endora and heartlessly

miscarried for

Endora ever

using that

dark glare, laughed cynically, "Endora claims she miscarried three years ago, but I never

issue not raised three years ago suddenly comes up

can I believe

the miscarriage? That medical report was nothing but a fake, bought from a doctor in Emperor City. I don't even

examination. Let's see if she truly can't bear

had secretly discovered Endora's scheme with the

panic was caught by Cato, who

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! Three years ago, she "sacrificed" her virtue to save