Love beyond the mask (Whitney) novel Chapter 1234

Shane’s long, strong hand closed over Sandy’s, gripping it tight.

She didn’t react. Not at first.

He’d said so much—each secret hitting her like a thunderclap, one after another, exploding in her mind.

She just stared at him, eyes shimmering with tears, lost in his words, reliving the last few years in her head.

The truth was, she really had lost her memory. She’d never told anyone.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to come clean, or take time off to repeat a year. But Florence had threatened her—said she’d already “helped” Sandy get her degree. Florence told amnesiac Sandy that she’d been a terrible student before the accident, way behind at their top-tier college.

Sandy still remembered how Florence had sneered, practically poking her in the chest: “You only came to Brittainia to be my study buddy, just like you promised Grandma. Now that I’ve graduated top of the class, I’m heading home. And you’re coming with me.

Don’t think you can stay here, Sandy. I paid your hospital bills after the car crash. You owe me.

Stop poking around. The amnesia? It was because of the accident.

Honestly, you were never a good student. You embarrassed the Sheldon family. I had to pay for your diploma or you’d never have made it out of college!

Face it—for the Sheldon family’s sake, I’m giving you, my dear stepsister, a chance. You can either come home with me and I’ll throw you a bone—a job—or stay here and end up with nothing. No money, no degree. Useless.

Just accept your fate, Sandy. You’ve always been my shadow. Don’t even think about outshining me in the Sheldon family. Let’s be real: you’re just not smart enough.

If you keep fighting me, your dad—the in-law—will have an even harder time with the Sheldons!”

She’d been trapped—no powerful family, nowhere to turn.

If Florence destroyed her diploma, Sandy’s whole future would go up in smoke.

Back then, she couldn’t remember anything about that lost year. She assumed it had been uneventful—just more classes, more schoolwork.

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