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?”

soul seemingly fleeing as he crashed to

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

Yvonne and Monica screamed, tumbling

Their faces were ashen.

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

words revealed a crucial

a cold

crowd, some lifting their eyes, saw Whitney moving freely, asked, “Ms. Valentine, you’re not dead, are

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

This revelation shocked everyone.

company would be easier to swallow whole, my will easier to forge? My fortune willingly

Wasn’t she killed by a

the Valentine family conspired

at Whitney, convincing himself she

to embrace Whitney. “Whitney, you’re alive! Thank

bear to die?” Whitney, with a spectral gaze, turned to Simon. “Before the wedding, my fiancé and my stepsister had an affair;

and Simon turned ghostly