Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Whitney’s Facebook pinged.

Opening the app, she was horrified to see Roselyn had posted the photo in their college group with a scoffing caption,

[Come see the former campus queen with her thug boyfriend, caught in the act. She’s dining and dashing at Southern Elegance Club. Stay tuned for the live stream of her getting kicked out.]

The group exploded. Whitney had been a goddess on campus, secretly admired by numerous high society young men. Now, they recoiled as if they had swallowed flies.

[How’d she end up like this, with a thug?]

[I felt sorry for her after the kidnapping news, but she’s clearly promiscuous.]

with a thug? Spend

her price, will you?]

pregnant. What’s she even worth?

became the group’s

that Roselyn just could not stomach. She pinched her face mockingly and said, “What’s with the act, darling? In the group

looked over, causing an inexplicable drop

over with a sultry gaze and taunted, “Do you have any idea what this meal costs? Whitney is

got a decent build. Consider this meal on me, and

snatch Whitney’s so–called ‘thug boyfriend, to trample her underfoot and show her up

me?” The man finally spoke, his voice

she did not know

card. Simon got it for her at the Southern Elegance Club. Whitney, I remember you used to come here for business, too. How come Simon

the sight of