Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 1141

"You know, I've always been a bit apprehensive about stirring up trouble, but I've got a good heart. Thinking back to Ms. Sheldon's enemies, weren't they Ludwik and Whitney?

So I decided to secretly swap out all the poisons in the lab. I didn't want Ms. Sheldon causing any more chaos that might drag me down with her! I even told the folks in the lab about it..."

By the time Ryan got to this point, Whitney definitely understood.

Her face, which had been ashen, started to regain some color, and the pounding in her heart began to settle. "Are you saying that even if Florence took poison from the lab, it was fake?"

"Yeah, I switched them all out," Ryan replied nonchalantly. "So your mom couldn't have been poisoned. If anything happened to her, it would be from the fall off the cliff!"

"Don't say such unlucky things! My grandma is still in there fighting for her life," Sammy snapped at Ryan with a glare.

But Whitney was too caught up in her relief to engage with Sammy or Ryan.

Like an overjoyed madwoman, she clung to Shane's arm. "My mom wasn't poisoned? Shane, did you hear that?"

Shane's handsome lips curled into a smile. "Seems like some higher power had your back! See, Whitney, I told you your mom wasn't pushed over the edge, so she wasn't sentenced to death. If it's just injuries from the fall, no matter how bad, I believe she can pull through."

"Yeah, if it's just injuries, I'll make sure my mom survives," Whitney said, nearly in tears from joy.

Meanwhile, Shane, ever the clear-headed observer, picked up his phone and sent a quick text to Parker.

At that moment, in the police station's holding cell, Parker sat across from a handcuffed Ludwik in the interrogation room.

supervising, though he

pretend not to

speak, his phone buzzed. He glanced at the

His steady gaze lifted

his phone with a playful glint in his eye, looked at Ludwik's calm, stoic face and couldn't resist teasing him a bit. "Why are you so optimistic, old man? Do you even know the Lippert family is under fire from investors, and the company's stocks are suspended for investigation? And yet, here you are,

like a chicken with its head cut off. Meanwhile, Ludwik maintained his unflappable calmness, as if he had

coolly, "After all these years as brothers, you think I

Damn it, as if there was anything Parker wouldn't

handed it over with a flourish. His mischievous eyes danced as he informed Ludwik, "I'm here to tell you, Whitney found her

deepened at the

just texted me that the poison Parisa ingested was swapped out by Ryan beforehand-thank God for Ryan's unnecessary meddling. So now, Parisa's only dealing with the injuries from the fall. Florence and Bryce probably thought the

help but let out a derisive

though momentarily surprised by the successive good news, kept his expression neutral.

small smile, a mix of concern and relief, "This means Whitney won't be crushed. Parisa's resilience, to hold on until help arrived, must be

you? You're always one step ahead!" Parker raised an eyebrow. "When you said Hudson's disappearance was a good thing, who would've thought you'd be right.

about to wax poetic about the long-lost lovers when Ludwik brought him back to the matter

got to let Bryce and Florence think Parisa's

saw Bryce just before the assassination attempt; he knows who the real

is!"

aide. We'll wait for the

bankrupt the Lippert family and bury you under a death sentence. He funneled a billion dollars through Parisa's account for this. He and Florence drained all her

"Keep all the