Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 5

The silence was deafening.

Preston looked up. The casket was to his left, draped with flowers.

Suddenly, from the adorned casket emerged something bloody.

“What’s that? It’s a hand!”

“But wasn’t Whitney’s body never found?”

A chilling terror swept through the room!

Just then, a person, bloodied and mangled, clambered out of the casket, wailing ghostly, “Daddy, it hurts so much! Am I dead?”

in horror, his soul seemingly fleeing as he crashed

My sister crushed my palm.

Yvonne and Monica screamed, tumbling

Their faces were ashen.

never to return? Why has the ghost come for us? Oh, don’t come

words revealed a crucial piece

with a cold sneer,

moving freely,

Whitney walked over, stepping on Monica’s hand with a chilling smirk, “Strange, my family acted as if I were dead,

This revelation shocked everyone.

burying me, my company would be easier to swallow whole, my will easier to forge? My fortune willingly left to Monica? Dad, have you forgotten how just ten days ago Monica and Simon paid off kidnappers to abduct me to the wilderness, to

the story’s different. Wasn’t

family conspired

Whitney, convincing himself she was real,

to embrace Whitney. “Whitney, you’re alive! Thank

how could I bear to die?” Whitney, with a spectral gaze, turned to Simon. “Before the wedding, my fiancé and my stepsister had an affair; she got pregnant, and

turned ghostly