Mated in the Shadow of My Sister novel Chapter 25

Chapter 0025

“Okay, Rose. I do not think I can open my eyes again anyway. Or speak. It hurts too much.”

“I know, Lily. I am sorry. I am so sorry. I promise we will get out of here though. We will follow our plan.

Just hold on a little longer for me, okay?”

“O–okay.”

Three minutes later, I hear footsteps that I know belong to Nick and my father.

“What happened to her?” my father asks. If I did not know any better, I would think that he is outraged

about what he is seeing.

“Mother said she saw her fall down the stairs.”

I feel someone pull back my blanket… or is it my shirt?

“How would she get marks like these from falling down the stairs?” my father asks.

“Mother said she was carrying plates of food. Perhaps the plates cut her?”

“Nick, look at these marks. What you just said does not make any sense. These marks look like they

were left intentionally.”

“I know, Father, but Mother was the only one here, and she was pretty adamant that that is what

happened. Maybe after she fell, Lily intentionally cut herself?”

“Like a suicide attempt?”

“Maybe? It cannot be easy for her to be here on Stephanie’s death anniversary. The guilt has to be eating. her alive, especially now that she is an adult and can really appreciate the consequences of her actions.

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“Maybe…” my father says, in a voice that tells me that he is not at all convinced.

For a brief moment, my heart starts to fill with hope and joy. From what I have heard of this conversation, my father is horrified at how badly I have been hurt; he is not aware of the abuse that my mother has been inflicting on