Even after Her Death by Rita Bond

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Haarely glanced at the photograph before nausea churned my stomach. With a swift motion, I tossed in

aside.

Carter, unfazed, methodically sifted through each image. The final photograph wasn't of Sadie. Instead, it was Silas's grave. The photo had been alte

Before Silas's headstone lay a human head, blood seeping from every orifice, with a striking red mole on the forehead.

The head was mine.

Carter's fingers tightened around the edges of the photos, his knuckles pale, veins bulging across the back

of his hand

"She's sending a message. She wants to use my head as an offering for Silas."

Kemp adjusted his glasses, his voice steady. "Ms. Gardner, from now on, all deliveries will be screened in advance. Something like this will not happen again."

"All the secretarial stall-are they from Bill's team? Any outsiders?" Carter asked sharply.

"No outsiders, Mr. Bolton, Every single one of them has been with Mr. Gardner for at least a decade. They're reliable, Kemp assured him.

"Keep it that way. Outsiders should have no access to Ms. Gardner," Carter reminded him firmly.

"Understood."

Bill's company might have been new, but his team was composed of trusted personnel he'd brought over. There was no room for breaches.

After finishing my work, I went to the funeral home. Sadie's body was already being cremated.

It had been two months since I last saw Monica, but she was nearly unrecognizable now.

The once carefully maintained face, which had undergone numerous cosmetic surgeries, was now riddled with blemishes and scars, likely worsened by neglect or abuse.

Time hadn't been kind to her aging features, and without money to sustain her lavish upkeep, she appeared haggard and strange.

"Oh, my poor daughter! Her anguished wails echoed as I approached.

Beside her stood Zack, who had also changed. He'd lost a considerable amount of weight, and though his belly had shrunk, his once-round face now bore sharp, malicious contours. His eyes brimmed with malice, devoid of any grief or tenderness.

It was no surprise. This was the daughter who had called another man father for 20 years. Even after the

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she had never once addressed Zack

of respect, Sadie had hurled insults at him during every encounter.

indifference, snapped, "Our daughter's being cremated right now! How can you stand there without shedding a single tear? She's your flesh and blood!" "Daughter?" Zack sneered, his voice dripping with venom. "She never once acknowledged me while she

in the air, cutting like a blade. He was

that moment, it became clear to me who Sadie had inherited her vicious nature from. With such flawed parents, how could she

already bore the marks of

skirmishes.

they had money, she

from the innocence of youth, their love couldn't even sustain civility. Who knew how often their home turned into a battlefield? Zark, however, didn't hesitate. He slapped

daze from that slap, blood

head, her

makes sense; even he said nothing, she had lost

had nearly poisoned Bill,

Bill was never in love with her, he would have at least given her a comfortable settlement to ensure her financial security if she had simply remained silent.

it, she tried to destroy

and Zack deserved each

should have been filled with shame and covered her

brought out the urn. "Who's

could speak, Bill stepped forward. Tll take it,"

the moment the urn

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for Sadie. She had been your daughter for 20 years. You're a better lather than

her ashes because I promised her I'd handle her burial and find her a proper resting place." Monica fell silent, her

death, and even in her final moments, she was surrounded by disgrace. Her parents lacked

a burial plot,

magnolia tree by her grave and erected a simple tombstone- The inscription on her

in death, Bill had

to Zoey. Bill sat quietly at her grave. "In the afterlife,

to her."

placed a bouquet of chrysanthemums by the tombstone, severing all ties to the girl he had once treated

70%

her time with

princess, she now faces a tragic

weighed down by the

therefore, I made a trip to

fresh bouquet of chrysanthemums rested there,

been Sadie's, worn just the

Anna had been here?

shadowy figure caught my eye, and I

before me,

respects! I wasn't