Corey looked a little hopeful. I felt a sliver of hope at those words too.

Milla loved her mother more than she hated us. She’d have to come back here to say goodbye to her.

“You’re not going anywhere near her,” Corey hissed, staring at me. “I’ll seriously beat the crap out of you if you even look at her. Do you understand?”

“She belongs to me too,” I said.

“She doesn’t,” said Caleb in a grim tone. “Haven’t you had enough of your sick pleasures? Stop trying to force yourself on her. She’ll belong to you only if she wants you back.”

His words were like stabs through my chest. He was right. I’d played out all my sick fantasies with Milla. I was nothing but a monster to her.

A trilling sound diverted my attention to my phone. A new text came in, notifying me that Milla’s phone was switched on and available to receive a call.

“What’s with that look?” Caleb asked at once. “What does it say?”

“Milla switched on her phone.”

“Really?” Corey gasped, looking up too.

They were in the middle of calling her when all our phones suddenly rang out with trilling noises, notifying us of an incoming message.

“It’s Milla,” Caleb whispered, staring at his phone.

I checked my phone, noticing she sent me a message on a chat app as well. Curious, I opened it up.

To my horror, a video was sent to me. The thumbnail was recognizable at once. She sent me the same clip I sent her yesterday to get her away from Luke. It was the same video I used to blackmail her.

“What the fuck,” Corey’s whisper rang out in the quiet room.

“Where did she get this clip?” Caleb muttered. “And why did she send it to us?”

“I sent it to her yesterday,” I said, deciding to be honest. There was no way my brothers could get angrier than they already were. “She was being a little too friendly with Beckett. I sent it to her so she’d be forced to leave him and follow me to the bar’s pantry room.”

Corey stomped toward me and before I knew it, he’d punched me in the face.

“You fucking asshole!” Corey screamed, hitting me again. “You said you’d delete it. You said this was only to scare her. Why the fuck did you keep it?” Grabbing my collar, he punched me again.

The pain nearly blinded me. The tang of blood coated my tongue.

“Let him go, Corey,” Caleb said in a grim tone.

“I’m going to kill him!” Corey shouted. “He’s the one who sent her over the edge.” He pushed me away hard.

I stumbled backward, desperately trying to stay steady on my feet. Corey’s fists packed a mean punch.

Corey whirled around to face Caleb. “Do you know what she did?” he asked in a gasping, choking voice. “She sent that clip to everyone on her call list. Everyone’s going to see it.”

The shock in Caleb’s eyes mirrored mine.

“But why…” Caleb suddenly looked lost. “Why would she—”

“Why else?” Corey hissed. “She just sacrificed herself. Everyone’s going to know her shame now. And everyone will know what we did to her.”

Shock spread through me in icy waves. I couldn’t believe Milla would do something like this.

I made a call to her phone. To my dismay, a robotic voice announced that her phone was switched off.

“She stayed quiet because of her mother,” said Corey, glaring at me with tear-filled eyes. “Eva was sick and dying. Milla didn’t want to break her mom’s heart over what we did to her.” He breathed heavily, looking wild and untamed. “Eva’s gone now. Milla is free. You can’t use that clip to blackmail her anymore. She isn’t chained to you anymore, Noah. What are you going to do now?”

I fell onto a couch. There was no reply left in me anymore.

Milla finally fought back against me.

If Corey was right and she sent that video to everyone, we were all going to end up in a ton of trouble. I didn’t even know how we’d explain it to our father. He was already grieving for the woman he lost. If he saw the video, he’d lose himself completely.

A small part of me was grudgingly impressed by her. She burned herself to take her revenge on me. Something like this was going to bury me. I’d be a true criminal in the eyes of my father and anyone else who saw that video.

My brothers looked dejected. They had to face the same reality as me.

Milla was gone and there was nothing we could do to get her back. Unless she decided to come back, she was lost to us forever.

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