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?”

looked up in horror, his soul seemingly fleeing as he crashed to

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

screamed,

Their faces were ashen.

she supposed to be trapped in hell, never to return? Why has the ghost

words revealed a

cold sneer,

moving freely, asked, “Ms. Valentine,

stepping on Monica’s hand with a chilling smirk, “Strange, my family acted as if I

This revelation shocked everyone.

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

story’s different. Wasn’t she killed by

the Valentine family conspired to kill

convincing himself

to embrace

my fiancé and my stepsister had an affair; she got pregnant, and for their

turned