All Chapters of 365 Nights, Two Stepbrothers, One Me.: Chapter 51 - Chapter 55

Lila's POV I ran to my room and slammed the door shut behind me, my back pressing against it like that alone could keep the whole mansion from crashing in on me.My hands were shaking so badly I could barely unlock my phone.I scrolled to Jojo's name and hit call, pacing back and forth across the room while it rang.He picked up on the second ring. "Lilly? It's late, are you okay?""Jojo," I said, my voice cracking immediately. "I need to tell you something and I need you to not freak out on me....""You're already scaring me," he said. "Talk!"I sat down on the edge of my bed, my knees pulled up to my chest, and I just let it out."Serena is dead," I said. "I killed her..."Silence hung on the line for a long moment."You what??" he finally said, his voice barely above a whisper."She came to the mansion," I said, the words tumbling out faster now that I'd started. "She was pretending to be me, she had Ethan believing she was me, and when I got there she pulled a gun on him. I didn'

Lila's POV I watched Damian shift, moving away from me, just slightly, and my chest tightened instantly.That small step he took back told me everything I needed to know.He was choosing himself.Not that I expected loyalty from him, not that he owed me anything, but something about it still cut deep, faster than I expected."Damian," I whispered his name, hoping he would look at me, say something, anything.He didn't answer.He kept inching backward.Then a gunshot cracked through the air, and before I could even process what was happening, he yelled, "Run! Now!"I grabbed his hand this time, not the other way around, and we bolted toward the woods, my bare feet tearing across the ground."Did you just shoot your Dad?" I gasped as we ran."No. I shot the ground," he said between breaths. "Just to keep them slow and distract them. Now move faster!""That was insane," I said, half laughing despite the terror pumping through me."Can you shut up and run," he snapped.We kept moving, br

Lila's POV My eyes opened slowly, and the first thing I noticed was the ceiling.White, unfamiliar, nothing like the mansion, nothing like anywhere I remembered.I tried to sit up and my body felt heavy, stiff, like it hadn't moved in weeks....my head throbbed.I pressed my palm to my temple and closed my eyes, trying to grab onto something, anything, that made sense.The last thing I could remember clearly was a group of men grabbing me, a needle sliding into my arm, and then nothing.Since then there had only been fragments, flashes of nightmares, waking up gasping, waking up screaming, waking up not knowing where I was or who I used to be.I couldn't remember anyone's face. Not clearly. Just shapes and voices that didn't attach to anything solid.I sat up on the edge of the bed, my mind spinning as I tried to force the pieces together and failed. A guard stood near the door, watching me carefully."Where am I," I asked, my voice rough from disuse."You're in the Sinclair estate,"