LANA'S POVI felt a terrible headache as I slowly opened my eyes, groaning with pain as I tried to take in my surroundings. I saw Doctor Miles writing on his pad. He was very oblivious to my sudden gain of consciousness. And when he finally heard me groaning, he turned towards me and tried to help me sit on the bed. "You're finally awake, thank God!" He squealed with joy. "49 hours had been a long time waiting for you to open those eyes.""Doctor Miles, hi," I tried to ignore the fact that I just saw him rejoicing to see me waking up. There was no doubt that he felt like I'd be lost. "You scared us all. How do you feel?" He put down his pad and started to check my vitals. I turned my head to see if Dax or Xavier weren't there. My heart started aching thinking that maybe they didn't even bother to come and were too busy to wait for me to wake up. To make things even worse, Xavier probably wasn't aware of my current situation since his father threw him out of the house. I sighed and

LANA'S POVAfter Xavier left, I fell asleep again. And when I woke up, Doctor Miles was by my side, taking me off the drip. I looked at the clock on the wall and realized that it was morning. Xavier and Dax did not come back last night or this morning. "Good morning, Lana. How are you feeling?" Doctor Miles looked down at me and smiled. "I feel great, thank you," I smiled back. "Dax is in my office signing your discharge papers," I could have sworn he rolled his eyes at me. I scoffed. "What was that?" "What was what?" He busied himself with his writing pad. "You rolled your eyes at me!" I chuckled."You were so grumpy that neither of the brothers were here and didn't even bother to ask how I was!" He protested. Wait, how did he know I was dating the two of them?"I wasn't grumpy," I defended myself. "Never mind. You're discharged," he declared as he turned off the TV too. I smiled very widely. "Thank God. This place is terrible." Doctor Miles laughed. "I'm glad to see you bac

LANA'S I was in one of those dreams again, running to save my life. I didn't know what I was running away from, but I knew that it had to do with saving my life. But the more I ran, the more my feet started to slow me down, and I felt like I was running on the same spot. When I looked down on my feet and saw that I wasn't getting anywhere, I screamed my lungs out and woke up panting on the bed. "Lana, is it another bad dream?" Dax asked next to me. He was so perfect. He'd always reminded that they were all just dreams and then made me lie down on his chest. I nodded. "I don't even know what I'm running away from." Yet, I knew. The thought of being so close to losing my life in less than three months never left my mind. I kept thinking of that day when my heart gave up on me, and death came for me. It was an inevitable fate. "It's just a dream, and you're stressing a lot these days. Are you okay? Is it about Charles Leonard?" He asked. "Maybe. I don't know," a tear slipped from my

LANA'S POV"Why did you let him back here?!" I snapped at Dax as he came towards me. "He wanted to talk to you, baby. He loves -" "He killed a man and thought that he could get away with it!" I said after cutting him off. "We all do things we are not proud of when we are angry, Lana. What he did was a terrible mistake," Dax reached me and looked down at me. "What do you think could have happened if Costa shot him? Or any of us?!" I was on the verge of crying. "But he didn't, okay? We just have to be grateful that nothing happened that could have happened." Dax was right. I knew that he was right. But I was shaken by the fact that Costa knew me and sent Xavier to tell me how he knew me. I should have listened to him, but that was going to reveal to them that I was not who I claimed to be to them. Besides, Amalah James was in my past, and it didn't feel right to confront anything from my past. I sighed and sat down on the edge of the bed. "I just wish that this was a perfect day.

XAVIER'S POVWhen we got home, Lana was the first one to hop out of the car. She was angry and I could not blame her. I was supposed to tell her about Costa, but I thought that she needed to find out herself if she wasn't undercover. it was so stupid of me to even doubt her. I have known her since college to think that she'd be a spy for Costa. I was supposed to keep her away from that man because he was nothing but bad news. I wasn’t supposed to just let her meet someone like that who had the capability to kill everyone in that restaurant just to escape with Lana. I felt so ashamed of myself and didn’t deserve Lana’s forgiveness."What is wrong with you?" Dax looked at me when we were in the living room. "What do you mean?" "You should have told her before allowing her to meet that good-for-nothing criminal!" And so, he was angry with me too. "We were there to ensure that nothing bad could happen to her, weren't we?" "You should have told her, Xavier! She's leaving us right now