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?”

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

gruesome corpse crawled out of the casket, approaching Yvonne, “Yvonne, it hurts. My sister crushed my palm. Sis,

screamed,

Their faces were ashen.

wasn’t she supposed to be trapped in hell, never to return? Why has the ghost come for us? Oh, don’t

a crucial piece

cold

crowd, some lifting their eyes, saw Whitney moving freely, asked,

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

This revelation shocked everyone.

willingly left to Monica? Dad, have you forgotten how just

story’s different. Wasn’t she

she’s implying the Valentine family conspired to

stared at Whitney, convincing himself she

to embrace Whitney. “Whitney, you’re

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

and Simon turned