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?”

horror, his soul seemingly fleeing as he crashed

it hurts. My sister crushed my palm. Sis, you let the kidnapper beat me

screamed, tumbling to the

Their faces were ashen.

wasn’t she supposed to be trapped in hell, never to return?

revealed a crucial piece

with a cold sneer, slowly

lifting their eyes, saw 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

This revelation shocked everyone.

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

the story’s different. Wasn’t she killed

family conspired to kill her…”

at Whitney, convincing himself she was

rushing to embrace Whitney.

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 a debt of gratitude, how could I ever

turned