Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 1198

Whitney continued, "Well, the clock's ticking and there's no turning back. Not my fault you're such a charmer-Sienna couldn't help but fall for you."

"Look, Ludwik's already made a mess with the whole 'sisters tangled up in drama' situation. Don't you dare repeat it."

Shane rolled his eyes, clearly annoyed. "Are you trying to gross me out?"

Whitney just raised her eyebrows. "You need to nip things with Sienna in the bud if you want to be worthy of Sandy."

"Alright, alright, my future sister-in-law, can you just zip it? I'll handle it today."

Shane shot off his text and didn't bother replying to her after that.

Whitney put her phone away with a sigh. Some days it felt like she had a mountain of her own problems, but somehow she always ended up worrying about everyone else's business too.

If she wasn't such good friends with Shane, she wouldn't care less about his love life.

Not to mention, she'd love to squash whatever ideas Emma was getting.

Seriously, it was pointless. They were all family now-she had no interest in playing those petty games.

As long as Sienna didn't end up with Shane, there'd be a lot less drama in the future.

step up and be the next Florence, Whitney would have

deep breath, smoothed out her expression, and drove back to Nelson

to

drifting to Hudson. Had

the hallway, she spotted Hudson's assistant waiting outside-no sign of Hudson or his wheelchair. Whitney shot a cautious glance at the window of her mom's room and allowed

taken her advice and gone in after

or just wanted the nurse to keep

was going

floor was quiet-just her mom's private room open, which made things feel

going in there, anyway? Were they actually

her and looked like he was about to call out "Miss Whitney"—but she quickly

couldn't find out she was here. He was so

motion, saying she was heading

nodded. He whispered, "Mr. Sheldon's been in there a while. Don't worry, he's doing fine. I heard him talking to your mother-couldn't make

relief-honestly, she was

grin. "Keep an eye out, okay? If anything happens, just call me. I'm heading out before Dad catches me

assistant watched her sneak away, practically

a little happiness-having both her parents around, she was just a kid again, no

the