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?”

soul seemingly fleeing as

of the casket, approaching Yvonne, “Yvonne, it hurts. My sister crushed my palm. Sis, you let

and Monica screamed, tumbling

Their faces were ashen.

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

revealed a crucial piece of

with a cold sneer, slowly stood

Whitney moving freely, asked, “Ms. Valentine, you’re not dead,

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

This revelation shocked everyone.

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 kill me off

story’s different. Wasn’t she

family conspired to

at Whitney, convincing himself she

rushing to embrace Whitney.

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 a debt of gratitude, how could I

Simon turned ghostly white.