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

it hurts. My sister crushed

Monica screamed,

Their faces were ashen.

supposed to be trapped in hell, never

words revealed a crucial piece

a cold sneer,

lifting their eyes, saw Whitney moving freely, asked, “Ms. Valentine,

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

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

story’s different. Wasn’t she killed

Valentine family conspired to kill her…”

at Whitney, convincing himself she was real,

to embrace Whitney. “Whitney,

wedding, my fiancé and my stepsister had an affair; she got pregnant, and for their child, they left me for

and Simon turned ghostly