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All the blood drains from my veins, as though she’s sucked it out with three little words.

Our. Parents?

“N-n-n-no. I—I—I don’t understand. You’re my—” I choke on the rest of the sentence, my head spinning.

“Yes, I’m your sister. And I’m sorry to tell you this won’t be the reunion you’ve been waiting for.”

CHAPTER 47

LILITH

HOURS EARLIER

“Now,now. Don’t get your panties in a twist, Mom.” I laugh.

My father’s nostrils twitch—so much anger for one tiny man.

But I get it. They’re pissed. I’ve had their precious daughter for the past several years while they cried themselves to sleep every night, thinking about what happened to her when she was two.

She was taken from the hospital the day I came into their life.

ME! The daughter who’s always been here. Always begging for an ounce of love.

But they saved it all for her. The favorite daughter. Even her nursery still looks the same as it did the day she vanished.

“How could you not tell us you found her?!” my father shouts. “That she worked for our hotel? We would’ve done anything to be reunited with her!”

“Yikes, Dad. Don’t give yourself a heart attack.”

My mother slaps me hard across my face, shaking her head at me in disgust as tears continue to fall. “What is wrong with you?! She’s your sister! Our daughter! Don’t you care? Don’t you love her?”

“Love?” I grit. “You wanna talk about LOVE?!” I get into her face. “Where was your love for ME?! The daughter who was aliveand well? The daughter who was by your side all these years, begging for a tiny piece of this so-called love you like to throw around! Where was that, huh, Mom?” I grind my teeth, unable to hold back at the hypocrisy. “I’ll tell you where: it was with her! Instead of focusing on the daughter you have, you saved all your love for the daughter who was dead. I should’ve been enough! Me! But I never was.”

“She’s not dead.” My father’s icy glare hits me and I barely feel it.

I return with a thunderous look. “That’s what you have to say after I just spilled my heart out to you? Figures.” My upper lip curls. “You don’t deserve her. And after today, you won’t have her at all.”

“What the hell does that mean?” Mom’s eyes flare.

Before she can wonder, I remove the taser Julius got me and zap my father first before I zap her too, striking both of them hard on the head until they groan. Removing a pair of zip ties, I tie my father’s hands behind his back, tazing him again before I bind my mother’s arms too.

I wait for them to both come to, standing above them and staring with a smug look.

It’s finally happening. I’ll finally take her away from them for good.

“Now you both stay here and think about what you’ve done, and once your angel daughter is gone, we can all finally be happy.”

“Wait!” Mom calls. “Please, sweetheart, whatever you’re planning, don’t do it! We can all be happy together. I promise!”

I let out a snort. “Oh, Mother, you had your chance with me, and you blew it. But don’t you worry. I’ll make sure she dies quickly.”

“Stop!” Dad hollers. “We love you, baby, please!”

“Hush. I have places to be.”

And a brat to pick up from preschool.

I drag the fake ID out of my wallet. It pays to have friends who know how to hack a school’s computer system and add Grandma to the pick-up list.

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