Rebelle House

16. Shallow Enough To Go Deeper.

At Rebelle House

Juniper smokes a cigarette while sitting at the dining room table looking at Ayla's file when she first got her when she was a teen.

Taking her cigarette she pokes it through Ayla's photo while letting it catch fire as she takes her lighter lighting the ends of it, watching as the flames spark then die out in her ashtray.

One of Juniper's men walks in, having her look up putting her cigarette out now.

"Any more good news?" She says now applying red lipstick onto her lips.

Placing photos on the table, it shows Ayla with Will, Aero then going to the hospital, showing she had no idea she's being followed.

"That bartender hasn't been released yet has he?" Popping her lipstick in her clutch, she stands grabbing it, placing it under her arm, "Pay my doctor friend a visit. Make sure to tell him to make it look accidental. Bitch wants to put a wedge between Ronan and I? I'll just make sure anyone that knows her will want to stay far far away from little miss junkie."

Going down the hall then up the stairs to the girls room, Juniper opens each door to wake them up.

"I want details on last night's task. Lori? Did you reel Paul?"

Lori yawning nods, "Like a fish on a hook."

Juniper now looks to Capri, "Aero? How did it go?"

Not being able to do anything as he left before she could follow through, Capri shook her head, "He ran out just before–" Juniper groans in annoyance, "Lilac tell me you fucked that poor baby faced Daniel," Lilac shook her head, "He just wanted to talk. So we talked. He just lost his pops. Sad really." Juniper shrugged, "Okay? And you couldn't fuck the sadness out of him? Really? Come onnn ladies. I taught you better than this." Capri, not being able to hold her tongue, says, "We can't be Ayla. As much as you hate her. You want us to do what she can and we can't."

Lori and Lilac agree by nodding slowly while not making eye contact as they do.

"This isn't some damn Avenger League Squad where one inhabited all the skills I gave you. You all have it in you. So, I need you three to find it and use it before I kick your asses out on the damn street."

Lori scoffs, "You've been giving our parents half of our money we make with our male suitors, telling them we aren't ready for years now but help keep them out of debt just to keep the vicious cycle going. At first I didn't get what Ayla meant but now I kind of do. You're not our house mother...you're our fucking pimp."

Smiling with some type of evil courtesy, Juniper claps, "Wow the blonde bimbo actually got something right for once. Took you what? Four years?"

Lilac now looks to Juniper, "You're jealous of Ayla. Ever since she walked in here. Ronan fell for Ayla even before what you did and had us do to her. That's why you want us seducing the Jorn's. She's finding a place to be safe, away from here and it's irking the shit out of you."

Juniper gets her men lined up in front of the three, "Now we all have balls to talk back? Okay," Ordering her men to take them down to the special room, they all try to claw their way out of their arms but only get tossed and slammed against walls as they do.

"Guess I have to remind you three who the hell I am. Stupid me, I've gotten too soft," Watching as they keep fighting, Juniper smiles, blowing them kisses once they're chained to the wall by the neck with dog collars, "Oh, one more thing, no food today," Waving as her men close and lock the door, she leaves now going to Ronan's home.

When she gets there in her sports car, she parks then barges in going straight to his home office knowing he's there on a business call to try and help Ayla.

"Yeah there's a loophole I guess then?" Ronan says into the phone but stops talking as Juniper slams his office door open.

Pressing hold on the call, Juniper takes a seat on the couch that was there.

"I'm in the middle of something," He tells her but she just crosses her legs showing she doesn't care that he is.

Having to reschedule the phone call, he hangs up now looking at her as she's checking her nails.

"I told you I wasn't seeing you. Not after the bloody mess you're making."

Cutting her eyes at him she scoffs, "Mess? The only mess is the little girl you want so fucking badly for no apparent reason."

Ronan leans forward on his desk, "Ayla has suffered enough of this game you keep playing with her."

Laughing while holding her stomach, wagging her finger, Juniper smiles showing her teeth.

"No, no, not my game. Our game. You're more to blame than me for what happened to her."

Jaw twisting with anger, Ronan glanced down then back up.

"No matter what you say, I love Ayla. That's my truth."

Scornfully, Juniper nods, "Your truth is a bag full of shit and infatuation. You fell for a minor. Instead of loving me you picked a child. How's that for truth? Huh? Funniest thing out of it though? She hates you. Bet she can't stand the thought of you touching her. Probably has to get high just enough for you to be inside her again."

Ronan, not being physically capable of being violent directly, just keeps his mouth shut while standing, having his chair fall backwards as he did, pacing.

"I didn't do anything wrong. I never did anything she didn't want."

Now standing too, Juniper sighs, "My dear, just give us another chance or sooner or later she'll turn on you and you'll be all alone...no one to love..." Touching his face about to kiss him Ayla walks in.

"Ayla—" He says, pushing Juniper away.

Turning around leaving he follows her.

"Why did I believe you? You were going to fuck me over weren't you?"

She asks, visibly drunk with a bottle in her hand.

"No—" Tossing the bottle at him, she says, "Fix it. That's all I ask. Fix it."

Going to her room, Ronan smiles relieved that she's even staying.

Juniper walks out scoffing, "Have fun helping your toddler. I have things to finish up."

"I'll do anything for her. Anything," He coldly says meaningfully.

Taking that as a threat, Juniper now looks at Ronan, the man she desperately wants, needs, with such hatred that if her look could kill, it would.

"You think I won't do worse just to get her out of your life? Oh baby, I'm shallow enough to go  deeper," Opening the door, she walks out slamming it getting in her sports car driving back to Rebelle House but notices the word bitch etched on the driver's side of the car door.