Grandpa had even moved Grandma’s grave up to the back hill.
Amelia pressed her lips together, thinking things through.
If Grandma’s body was actually here, then that grave on the hill had to be empty. So why did Grandpa still visit it so often, sometimes staying for hours? Was there some secret hidden in that empty tomb?
The thought made her remember Grandpa’s lab at the care facility. Her gut told her whatever experiment Grandpa was obsessed with, even after he got sick, had everything to do with Grandma’s preserved body.
“Amelia? Should… should we close Grandma’s tomb now?” Diana tugged nervously at Amelia’s sleeve.
Amelia set the black cat statue Diana had knocked over back in its place. As she did, the floor sealed up again.
Now that she’d pulled herself together, Amelia tried to reassure Diana. “Don’t be scared. This is my family’s house, and you’re my best friend. My family would never hurt you, ghost or no ghost. Seriously, do you really believe in ghosts?”
Diana thought about it and realized Amelia had a point. She bent down and bowed three times toward the floor.
“Sorry, Grandma. I was really rude before. Please excuse me for barging in.”
With that, the two of them went back to searching for medical books.
Amelia picked out three, then sorted through what Diana had found, and by the end, she had eight books in total.
Before they headed upstairs, Amelia stopped Diana. “Don’t tell anyone about this, okay? There’s still a lot I haven’t figured out.”
As far as she knew, there was no technology out there that could make an amber coffin like this. And from the way Grandma’s body was preserved, this coffin must have been made decades ago.
How was that even possible?
Maybe it had something to do with Grandpa’s research in his lab. Was he working with the Packman family? Or Ryan? Or even Aaron? The Morris family was the most mysterious, and Aaron had never even shown up in public.
But Aaron and Ryan seemed close—even though Ryan didn’t actually have real power in the Packman family. Maybe they were working together behind the scenes. Maybe it was all some alliance of convenience.


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