Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Sienna could barely hold herself together. With a shaky gasp, she dropped right down onto the hardwood floor.

Emma's cheeks flushed scarlet. “I—I only heard about it from the housekeeper! She told me, that's all!"

Whitney rolled her eyes and called her out. "Oh really? The housekeeper knew something before you did? Funny how that works. Maybe the housekeeper also happened to drag Sienna all the way to the Nelsons' front door, huh?"

Mrs. Nelson's eyes went wide. She slammed her palm on the table with a crack.

She never imagined that the old lady she'd known for years would try to trick her like this. She'd worried about Sienna, treated her almost like her own niece, but these two-grandmother and granddaughter-had cooked up this scheme right under her nose.

If she hadn't caught it in time, the Nelson family's name would've been dragged through the mud. The whole upper crust of Brew Hill would be whispering about how Shane was covering up a scandal.

A single misstep-sometimes, that's all it takes to ruin someone's life.

"So this was your plan all along? You and your darling granddaughter-thick as thieves-decided to play your dirty little games with my family? Well, that's enough. Honey, take care of this."

she

was at your house for dinner last night, and then this disaster happens-I showed up early to check on her, that's all! And now I'm being accused

Shane, yet she's sneaking around with another man? You

your family's made enough of a

to do with it, what are you still doing here? You're nothing but bad

what's

Gary, I'm still

us out now, everyone in the neighborhood will

out of the. papers that's more mercy than you deserve. As for Brew Hill, I

hair tangled and wild, clung to her blanket, refusing to budge. Her voice was desperate and raw. can't go out like this! Mrs. Nelson, are you really so heartless? You want to see my reputation trashed among all the families in Brew Hill? Shane, I

sobbed, still shielding her

the whole circus, barely resisting the urge to roll her eyes.

at Shane, who looked just as done with the

complicated expression. She hesitated, then spoke

knew what she was about to say. He sighed.