Lila slightly nodded, and then went forward, grabbed the handle of the door, hardened her heart and pulled it.
Lila noticed her twin's condition. She was slapped by someone. The left side of her face was swollen. She had a blackened eye. Her wrists and ankles were restrained with chains. She had lot of mixed feelings.
While she was lost in thought, she heard a chuckle. She lifted her head to find Lily staring straight back at her.
"Look, who's come here. Loser sister of mine. How did you survive? You were supposed to be dead, weren't you?"
"H… how did you know?", Lila's throat constricted. She spoke these four words with great difficulty.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha. So silly, Lila. You were always the dumbest person I've ever seen."
Lila stared blankly at her. She could not believe that Lily would say all these things to her. She felt that Lily was always good to her. She believed her from childhood.
"Lila, are you still thinking why I've changed so much? You're such a fool." Lily gloated, while Lila automatically nodded at the first part of her sentence. She needed a reason. Her heart wouldn't calm down.
"You want an answer, right? Tell them to unlock these chains."
Lila looked at the monitor and looked with pleading eyes. Sophie smiled, as she knew what Lila meant, so, she sent someone inside to unlock Lily's chains.
Lily got up from the chair and flexed her arms. She looked gruesome with wounds all over her body. She went to the corner of the room where a glass was resting on top of a pitcher. She poured water into the glass and drank a gulp, then, she splashed the rest on the face of dazed Lila. Lila was startled at the sudden assault, and looked askance at her twin.
"Are you trying to ask me why I've poured water onto you?"
Lila's lips were pulled into a thin line. But she controlled her temper, as she needed a lot of answers before leaving her in the hands of Sophie. Lily walked one round in the room before sitting down in front of Lila and smirked.
"Do you think I'll be able to get out if I try to take you as the hostage?"
"No."
"Ah. And why is that?"
"They don't cherish me."
"Is that so?"
"Then, let me try."
Robert and Oliver were ready to rush inside, but Sophie held them back saying, "Have faith in her. She is a tough nut to crack."
This time it was Lila, who chuckled.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Oh? I'm laughing at your foolishness. Can't you tell?" Lila chuckled again.
Lily was dumbfounded at her change in attitude and thought, 'When did her aura change so much? She looks intimidating. When did she change so much?'
"He he. Now, that you have completed speaking utter rubbish, tell me your identity." Lila pulled Lily from the chair, threw her onto the ground, sat on the chair herself and intimidatingly questioned.
Lily laughed hard, "Foolish. Why would I tell you?"
Lila slapped her hard on her swollen cheek. Lily felt her cheek throb and sting with pain.
"Why did you slap me?"
"Don't you deserve that? Now now, don't waste anymore time, and tell me." She commanded.
Lily looked at Lila's changed demeanor and felt a but fearful. She did not know what invoked this fear within her. She said, "I'm the heir of The Mercury. But before that I had to complete a mission. They told me to know more about the Atkins. My mission was also to find about the legendary Lisa. But the security around her is so tight. When I found a loophole, I tried to enter, failing to understand that when that person has such tight security, why would there be such loophole. Anyway, I got caught and was brought here."
"Oh? And what has Andrew Johnson got to do with all of this?" Lily's eyes popped wide open at Lila's question.