Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 1075

"I can't accept this! Why should I?" Whitney cried out, feeling like a wounded

animal, her defenses shattered. Tears welled up in her eyes. "Did anyone bother to tell me what was going on? No!

You say Florence's child is mine.

You say I was pregnant, but did I know then?

When my so-called genes made it into the world, I had no clue!

I don't even know how it ended up in Florence's belly!

Or maybe, you're just lying to me again now?!

Ludwik, for an entire year, you had so many chances to tell me, to come clean,

but you played me for a fool the whole time. I hate you!

There's no way I can accept a child born from Florence."

She shook her head wildly, losing grip on reality, clutching her head. "What does this have to do with me?! Why should I believe you?"

Tears streamed down her beautiful face as Whitney felt her heart breaking and a sharp pain pounding in her head. She was being forced to accept a harsh truth, an unfamiliar child!

"Sweetheart, it's all my fault, please don't cry." Ludwik was filled with deep regret as he watched her agony unfold. He cupped her cold, damp chin in his large hands, his voice hoarse. "Let me tell you everything, starting from when you got pregnant, okay?

I made a mistake by hiding it from the start, and it just snowballed from there. My selfishness took over.

Do you remember?

My mom was about to undergo a spinal transplant. I took Florence to

Philadelphia, and you were in a car accident set up by Thea and then kidnapped. I rushed back to save you that night.

You were delirious, and we were in the wine cellar... it happened.

Just that one time... Later, when your dad had an accident, you fainted in the hospital and they found out you were pregnant.

I was both thrilled and worried. To keep you and our child, I hid it all without a trace.

rest of

You know it.

were pregnant. She blackmailed Ryan to trick you and stole your embryo during a hospital visit, implanting it

eyes widened in disbelief, as if struck by

medical knowledge, she had never heard of such a

be that Ryan

was Florence!

Oh my God.

but Ludwik never said

her aching head, her voice shattered, "So I was pregnant without knowing, and you kept it from me,

I knew back

swap everything." Ludwik's handsome face was marked with a cold bitterness, a harsh smile

Florence had meddled,

miscarried on purpose because

was furious back

pain. Everything now clicked into place; she remembered thinking it was just a

a gastric check-up, which was supposed to be a local anesthetic but turned

home, she felt

Especially with Ludwik

uterine exam, and now looking back, that exam must have

unknowingly been pregnant, and the embryo was stolen from

nurtured in Florence's

was the most eligible bachelor in all of Manhattan, and Florence's scheme was

claimed to be pregnant after a drunken night with Ludwik, forcing him into

viewing the child in Florence's belly

a knife was

man before her. "And

tightened into a thin line, "I didn't discover it, Florence and Ryan covered their tracks perfectly, waiting to use the child

that time, wasn't Sammy kidnapped by

was the sharp-eyed Sammy who discovered Florence had stolen your embryo. He was incredibly

used Florence's prenat Plot

compare

their grand

a step, her heart, already full of holes, was hit

a gentle, guilty voice of a child came from behind, "Mommy, it's true, I stumbled upon

shedding tears, turned around

out of nowhere,