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?”

frozen, looked up in horror, his soul seemingly

Yvonne, “Yvonne, it hurts. My sister crushed my palm. Sis, you let

screamed, tumbling to the

Their faces were ashen.

her head, wailed, “Mom, wasn’t she supposed to be trapped in hell, never

revealed a

cold

moving freely, asked,

hand with a chilling smirk, “Strange, my

This revelation shocked everyone.

red as she sneered. “Was it that by 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

Wasn’t

family conspired

at Whitney, convincing himself she

rushing to embrace Whitney. “Whitney, you’re

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 for their child, they left me for dead. Such

Simon turned