Love Beyond the Mask by Adelaide Sinclair

Chapter 1096

Keegan stared at Whitney, utterly baffled, his face a canvas of confusion. "Your mom's back? What are you talking about, Whitney?"

Whitney's mind was a tangled mess, her thoughts stretched to the breaking point.

She couldn't even begin to explain to her uncle what she'd heard from Ludwik. Her eyes darted around her grandfather's grave, each glance reinforcing her suspicion. "Grandpa, Ludwik told me my mom might not be dead. He said Florence might have fled to Germinia to pretend to be me, just to meet her."

"How can your sister not be dead? I saw it happen, the car crash. I saw our father..." Keegan's eyes widened, disbelief etched on his features.

Whitney frowned. "But can you be absolutely sure there was a body? You only saw her clothes. The car exploded again, and you had to escape, right?"

Years of muddled memories, painful and fragmented, swirled in Keegan's mind, as if in black and white. He clutched his head, overwhelmed.

He snapped back to the present, questioning Whitney, "But why would your mom go to Germinia? Is Ludwik just making this up?"

"He's not making it up. This new tombstone is proof enough."

"Look at this, Uncle. There's a bouquet. Besides you and me, who else would visit Grandpa's grave?

she think you're dead? Maybe someone deceived her...

Florence might be trying to provoke Mom

plot, maybe she used your 'death' to fuel Mom's

his head, murmuring, “That's impossible. Your mom was a force in business back in the day. Grandpa groomed her to

in the crash?"

widened, filled with

still grappling with half-formed thoughts, a storm of

already consumed by new worries. She paced the graveyard, a sense of desperation in her voice

heart pounded, sending blood rushing to her head,

you come

Are you still in Banyan

whispered, her eyes reflecting the moonlight, as sudden

Banyan City, what