Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 1154

She'd barely managed to haul herself up-she'd just started to get back on her feet. Was all that swagger from the past few days nothing but a mirage, just a dream?

All those years of playing it safe, of keeping her head down, of making sacrifices -Florence had done it all for this moment, just to get her hands on Parisa's fortune!

Where had it gone wrong? She and Bryce had plotted every detail. Parisa shouldn't even be alive-she'd been poisoned, for God's sake!

It was all Whitney's fault... That damn woman and her stupid medical skills. She was the one who saved Parisa's life.

Florence's face was slick with cold sweat, pale and twisted with resentment as she stared at the screen, at Parisa's breathing face. She spun around, desperate, and tried pleading with Bryce. "Mr. Lutz, we can't get caught. We... we just can't

But Bryce was in no shape to help anyone. He didn't even look at her. At this point, Ludwik had already laid out all the evidence against them, and Phineas had called the President. The President himself had just declared them guilty.

Bryce knew, in that instant, it was game over.

just as much

As everyone in the room started whispering and panicking, he slipped his hand into his jacket pocket and pulled out a tiny pistol. In two quick strides, he was behind Phineas's wheelchair. Before anyone could react, he kicked the chair hard, sending it

he could even process what was happening, the cold barrel of

Phineas shouted for

was busy handing over stacks of evidence to the press, letting them snap photos when he heard the commotion. He spun around just in time

face unreadable. He moved so fast that Bryce didn't even have a chance to shove the wheelchair out the door. In a blink, Ludwik yanked

grip on the gun tightening,

spreading among the board members. Seeing the gun,

in here

himself and shoved Phineas out of

rolling a few feet and