Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

The butler replied, "Ma'am, I just checked outside and-well, you won't believe it it's Miss Sienna from the Sheldon family!"

"She looked like she'd been through something awful. Completely unconscious. And the weirdest part? Someone just dumped her right at our front door. What's going on?"

“Sienna?! Is she... is she still alive?" Mrs. Nelson sucked in a sharp breath, her face tense. "Oh my God, don't just stand there! Bring her inside, quick! There are too many people milling around the manor gates."

"And listen, go call Emma straight away. Sienna is her precious girl, and I don't want her getting the wrong idea that we- the Nelsons-had anything to do with this..."

The butler nodded briskly and hurried off, rallying a couple of house staff to help.

Mrs. Nelson anxiously dialed up the family doctor from the living room, her brow furrowed.

Upstairs, Shane's father, Gary, just stepped out of his study. Hearing the commotion, he frowned and called down to his wife. "What's all the racket about? Honey, don't tell me Shane's finally come crawling home. After all that tabloid mess this morning, I swear, I'm going to wring his neck—"

"It's not Shane. Something's happened."

Mrs. Nelson's nerves were frayed. "That scandal this morning was bad enough, and now Sienna—out of nowhere—ends up at our doorstep, barely conscious. This can't be a good sign."

"Butler! Did you get her inside yet?!"

in the guest room," the butler called back. Mrs.

the one you've been considering for Shane?

fingers to her temple, visibly stressed. "Her clothes were all torn-God, I'm afraid

could finish, a loud

God-my poor baby! What happened to her? This is going

shape. Let me check her injuries first," the family doctor

this

please hold

eyes widened;

butler close behind. "Did you call

a bit sheepish. "Just like you told me, ma'am. But

she get

Mrs. Nelson had to agree the Sheldon matriarch's arrival was almost

she already know something had

Mrs. Nelson stepped in to intervene. "Emma! Please, try to calm down and

Nelson? How could this happen to my Sienna?" Emma turned, gripping Mrs.

returned her