Broken Handcuffs [III]

xxvii.

{ completely unrelated to this book but LOOK AT THE HEART EYES LANA GIVES CARMELLA }

there's a missing gif ugh

[mood.]
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"Can you just stop for one second?"

Purple hair whips as sharp as the owner turns, rage in her eyes, "No! I can't believe you didn't tell me!"

"I didn't tell you because I knew you'd react like this! Babe, it was in the past and that's all it was!"

Sasha scoffs, turning away and walking down the hallway, Lexi running and sliding in her socks to catch up to Mercedes.

"Please let me explain! Everything! I honestly forgot about all of this and that's why I haven't told you, but we've never had secrets between us and you know that. Please Mercedes, let me explain."

"You have five seconds to get your tiny ass out of my face before I start hitting you."

"......"

"What are you doing?"

Lexi looks up, "I'm on my knees. You told me to get out of your face, please. Please let me explain."

"How are you going to explain being the fucking sidekick to the person that blew up our entire division?! Which you still haven't told me who that was! You knew everything all along and you told no one! Nobody! But you forgot? This was something you could forget?"

"Mercedes—"

"Don't call my name."

"Look, I promise that I don't know who it was. It was a chain of command. And I told Nicole!"

"So you told her everything? I could call her right now and she'd say, 'Yeah I knew that,' in a calm voice? Bullshit. You are so full of shit, Lexi! And if that big situation was enough for you to forget? How about you forget our entire relationship?!"

Lexi was up by then and used that quiet strength of hers to hold Mercedes in place, "No! You're not letting me say anything!"

"I've heard enough!"