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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out, she had never once addressed Zack

him during every encounter.

"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 was alive. You raised her into a worthless brat. She got what she

the air, cutting like a blade. He was describing a dead woman-a

to me who Sadie had inherited her vicious nature from. With such flawed parents, how could she have grown up to be anything else? Driven to madness, Monica lashed out,

bore the marks of prior fights,

skirmishes.

made sense-when they had money, she was

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

into a daze from that slap, blood trickling

head, her eyes

it makes sense; even he

had nearly poisoned Bill, for the Cinderella

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. But her greed consumed her. Having already lived in luxury,

get it, she tried to destroy

truth, she and Zack deserved

she should have been filled with shame

staff brought out the urn.

Monica could speak, Bill stepped forward. Tll take it," he said

began sobbing the moment the urn rested in

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you'd still care for Sadie. She had been your daughter for 20 years. You're a

I promised her I'd handle her burial and find her a proper resting place."

even in her final moments, she was

for Bill spending money to purchase her a burial plot, she likely wouldn't even have a

her grave and erected a simple tombstone- The inscription

Bill

to Zoey. Bill sat quietly at her grave.

to her."

chrysanthemums by the tombstone, severing all ties to the girl he had once treated

70%

her time with

princess, she now faces a

my heart weighed down

therefore, I made a trip

chrysanthemums rested there, alongside

it immediately-it had been Sadie's,

Anna had been here?

and I commanded

dragged before

here to pay respects!