A Beauty With Multiple Masks

“No!” Cindy shook her head vehemently to deny the fact. “My Shandie isn’t dead. She’s just asleep. Why did you put her in a coffin? Take her out!”

The guests shook their heads at her antics. She‘s gone nuts.

One guest remained puzzled and asked softly, “That’s her adopted daughter. Why is she this upset? No matter how much she adores her adopted daughter, there’s no reason for her to lose her mind. She

can just adopt another daughter, no?”

Another guest instantly quipped, “Did you not attend the Actonwards’ birthday party last night? Shandie was there, and she revealed that she’s Henrick and Cindy’s biological daughter.”

That revelation immediately attracted the other guests’ attention.

“Seriously? She’s their biological daughter? The timing’s strange. Does that mean they got together before Maureen Moore died?”

“You’re right! I thought that sounded ridiculous last night. But now, Cindy is acting like she has lost her biological

daughter for real!”

“Even if they didn’t get together before Maureen died, it was wrong for Cindy to marry her brother-in-law!”

lower down your voice.

heard every word

His eye twitched.

 me

 did / give birth to

had never been so humiliated

If that did not happen, people wouldn’t be

turned

even hear the guests’ criticisms.

up and finds herself in a coffin, she’ll

had gone

the fact that Shandie was dead and

and

cheeks. She touched her face to find

turned to jelly, and she collapsed