Chapter 27

The reason Jeremy pushed so hard to suppress everything was simple. Alana's death was tied to so much bloodshed, violence, and power plays. If news of this spread beyond the village and the authorities took notice, then the Ford family, along with the entire Stonebrook network, would be in serious danger. They might lose everything they had. No funeral was held for Alana. After getting her parents' consent, the Ford family took her body to the local cemetery and buried her there. Her grave was just a small mound of dirt, with no tombstone to mark her final resting place. Due to the Ford family's oppressive control, after Alana's death, no one dared to talk about her anymore. Even the terrible rumors about her being abused seemed to vanish within a few days. It was as if this tragic woman had never even existed in Stonebrook. I never thought she truly disappeared. I believed her soul crossed over to a parallel world, where she and I received the same college acceptance letters, and