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.

be gone, but Sienna was a handful. If she thought she could step up and be the next Florence, Whitney would have no problem cutting her down to size

She took a deep breath, smoothed out

supposed to report back to

mind kept drifting to Hudson. Had he managed

head straight to Parisa's room. Out in 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

Dad had taken her advice and gone in after

door wasn't completely shut. Maybe her mom was nervous, or just wanted

that Whitney was

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

going in there, anyway? Were

he was about to

she was here. He

a little shooing motion, saying

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 out what, but at least

huge sigh of relief-honestly, she was

grin. "Keep an eye out, okay? If anything happens, just call me.

watched her sneak away, practically

was obvious Whitney was finally getting a little happiness-having both her parents around, she was just a kid again, no matter how old she was. He'd watched Whitney struggle ever since

to the