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.

probably in just as much trouble and couldn't

eyes dropped, dark and vengeful. 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

even process what was happening, the cold

shouted for

heard the commotion. He spun around just in time to see Ludwik dart forward

He moved so fast that Bryce didn't even have a chance to shove the wheelchair out

gun tightening,

Evans gasped, panic spreading among the board members. Seeing the gun, most of them instinctively shrank back

get in here and

braced himself and

few feet and out of