Love beyond the mask (Whitney)



She stormed over and, standing on her toes, slapped Ashton across the face!

Valerie, mustering all her strength, pulled Elaine away and yelled at Ashton, "Ludwik finally woke up to the truth, and I won't let you mess things up. Ashton, if you don't let Elaine go today, I'm filing for divorce, today! You jerk, you don't even get a minute to consider."

Ashton glared at Valerie, his eyes shooting daggers. The usually cold woman, now fierce and determined, was shaking all over, yet in her fury, she seemed even more captivating. But the word 'divorce' stunned Ashton. Valerie wanted a divorce?

"Elaine, you're coming with us!" Felix and his team barged in, quickly subdued Elaine, and dragged her out of the Fuller Mansion.

"Ashton, Ashton save me!" Elaine saw Ashton hesitating at Valerie's threat of divorce and was infuriated. But Ludwik gave her no chance to escape, as his bodyguards forcefully took her to the car.

"Ashton, for what she did to my mother, dying a thousand times wouldn't be enough. You better not make this worse," Ludwik warned, his eyes cold. Ashton was visibly shaken. Elaine turned pale, truly frightened now. She thought Ashton could protect her, stand up to Ludwik, but he was just another fool!

The car door opened with a whoosh. The bodyguards led Elaine into a stark white room, heavy with the scent of disinfectant. As Elaine was fretting, Ludwik entered with icy steps. His expressionless face sent shivers down her spine.

Elaine, still feigning innocence, rushed over, "Ludwik, listen to me, I didn't kidnap..."

Ludwik's stern gaze and cold demeanor cut her off, "Nor did you harvest my mother's kidney and then pretend to donate yours, fooling me for three years, making me feel indebted?"

His voice was hellish, making Elaine shiver. She bit her lip, defiant, "Ludwik, you can't condemn me just on your godmother's word. She's just woken up, her mind could be muddled. Maybe Whitney has been using her acupuncture to tamper with her memory, framing me! Whitney knows those dark arts; I told you three years ago she hypnotized you, it must be her..."

Suddenly, Whitney burst into the room, clutching Sammy's little shoe. She stormed in and without a word, began slapping Elaine, relentlessly, until Elaine collapsed, bewildered and crying, "Ah, what are you doing?"

Whitney's eyes burned with unquenched anger and hatred. Ludwik stood aside, his chilling presence unmovable. Whitney, looking at Elaine's swollen face, scoffed, "Your talent for deception is indeed remarkable. How else could you have fooled Ludwik for so long? I'm just glad I got here in time. Some accounts need to be settled today. You framed me, poisoned Natalie, stole her kidney to play the hero for the Lippert family, Natalie told Ludwik everything, you can't run. But what he doesn't know..."

Elaine's face paled as the blood in her veins froze. Whitney crouched before her, looking up at Ludwik with tears in her eyes, "There's so much more. For instance, who really cured your hysteria three years ago? Was it Elaine, who can only poison? No, Ludwik, it was me. She couldn't cure you, so she sent me into your hospital room. I stayed with you all night; you dreamt of your mother crying, touching our unborn child. Why did I do it? Because I loved you. I didn't want to take credit from her!"

Ludwik's expression hardened, remembering the many times she had tried to explain, but he wouldn't listen. Whitney, with a bitter laugh, stared at Elaine, "Your 'kidney donation' was a ploy that won all of Ludwik's trust, making him blind to your actions. That led to you using my supposed affair with Bryce to drive a wedge between us. You claimed I was depressed, and Ludwik, without questioning, sent me to a sanitarium."

Regret filled Ludwik's eyes; he had trusted Elaine too much, believing her claims that the child would have autism, he wanted Whitney to get better but also couldn't let her go...

Whitney, through her tears, looked

piercingly cold at Elaine, "But the climax was when I was injected with labor-inducing drugs by a doctor bribed by Elaine in the sanitarium. You wouldn't believe, the night I fled, I and Tiana found the kidney donor girl, planning to expose Elaine. But Elaine found out, chased us down, and in front of us, killed that innocent girl! Ludwik, she's a

murderer! She caused my water to

break, sent Tiana into a brothel to be violated, threatening her to keep silent about that night."

"You're lying," Elaine, cornered and desperate, still denied everything, "Ludwik, she's using your mother's situation to pin everything on me." Whitney, stepping on Elaine's hand, looked fiercely into Ludwik's eyes, "She broke my water, left me alone and desperate. She called you, pretending

I was begging for your help, but you never responded. You didn't want the child, and my despair and hatred for you grew!"

Ludwik shook his head in disbelief, "The night you supposedly 'jumped into the sea', I never got your calls. I was on a flight! Elaine... it was all your doing!"

As the confrontation intensified,

Elaine was rendered speechless. Whitney, with a sad realization, said, "So, you dialed a void number? Exploiting my utter despair to make me believe he abandoned me and our child, even wishing us dead! t dashed to the side of the road and after giving birth, Elaine's cronies were hot on my heels. I thought to myself, the man I love doesn't want me, he'd rather have our child dead. So, I thought dying would be a better fate than falling into Elaine's

clutches to be tortured alive. That's why I jumped into the sea!"

Listening to her despair, Ludwik shook his head in frustration and let out a bitter laugh, "Whitney, it wasn't like that. I never got your call. But she misled me. When I got to the

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shore, she told me you were in a rush to save Bryce in Emperor City, that you ran away from the hospital eager to get rid of me, tossing our child into the sea. The bloodied footprints along the road were supposedly your escape. I was livid. I hated you for abandoning me. After that... Danny spent half a year in an incubator, and I directed all my hatred towards you. I couldn't pull myself together. It was my stupidity, my mistake to trust her for three

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trustworthy, good woman..."

Whitney's heart ached as she spoke with a tone dripping in sarcasm, looking at him, “So, do you finally see the extent of her 'good deeds'? Do you realize now how venomous a person she is?!"