bullets and bouquets

28

"Denmar," Sadie radios. Bella stands up from her chair in Elena's warehouse, "The Estate is clear."

"Copy that, Madame. We will be en route to the Estate shortly," he radios back, going to put the walkie away.

"Wait, wait, ask if she's okay," Bella asks. He hands her the walkie so she can ask herself, "Sadie... is everything okay?"

"Everything is fine, cara mia. It's handled," she answers, "I'll see you soon, okay?"

"Okay," Bella hands the walkie back to Denmar who then leads the group out to the remaining SUVs. Bella rides in one with Natalia and Robin. Dacre and Briar ride in another with Denmar. They pack all the new pet supplies up in the trunks and head back to the Estate.

Bella doesn't know what to expect when coming back to the Estate. She gets so worried when Sadie is serious even though she is not a part of the business.

"Sadie! What the hell happened?" Bella exclaims upon walking into the living room and seeing her eyebrow swollen. She had cleaned up the blood after the bomb was disconnected, but she can't do anything about the swelling.

"I can explain, Darling, can we talk in the room?" she says calmly. Dacre and Natalia both give Finn confused looks. He mouths 'I'll tell you later'.

"Uh, yeah," the brunette answers as she is pulled into their bedroom, "Are you okay?"

"There were intruders in the Estate and I had to make them think that I was surrendering so Jenna and Finn could take them out," the redhead explains.

"So you hurt yourself?" Bella questions, gently feeling over the cut with her thumb.

"No... Sabrina did," Sadie admits.

"She did what?!?" the brunette exclaims. She tries to push past Sadie, "I swear to god, I'm gonna — Hey! Put me down!"

The redhead throws the brunette over her shoulder, preventing her from doing that. The blonde isn't even in the living room. Jenna is with her in her room until Sadie handles telling Bella.

"Sadie! Put me down, I'm serious," Bella exclaims.

"Bella, I need you to calm down," the mafia boss says calmly, "I asked her to do it."

"You what?"

"I asked her to hit me," Sadie confirms, "I needed the intruders to believe she had complete control over me."

Bella doesn't say anything else.

"You calm?" the redhead asks.

"I don't like that she did it," the girl comments.

"I know. It had to be done, Darling. Or they would've hurt me even worse than she did," Sadie points out, "I'll put you down if you promise to not go out and try to murder Sabrina."

The brunette huffs, "I promise."

She sets her smaller girlfriend down, a frown across her face.

"What's with the pout?" the redhead grins.

"Your eyebrow is all messed up now," Bella explains.

"But my lips aren't," Sadie whispers as she pulls the girl in for a kiss. Bella pulls away without a frown.

"Okay... I'm better now," she says. Sadie smiles.

"Good," she grabs her hand and walks out of their room. They find the others sitting in the living room, the new pets exploring. Sadie walks to Finn, "You can go get them now. She's good."

He nods and walks to the elevator.

"Hey, I think we're gonna have to leave early. I want to get Brick home and spend some time with him," Natalia says to Sadie as she sits down on a couch next to Bella.