Page 15 of Truths

Lex reaches out and rests a hand on her arm, and Kara locks eyes with Chance, who looks at her with disgust while he shakes his head.He'sdisgusted withher? There's no point in keeping his secret any longer. “Chance told me not to.”

“And you listened?” Lex asks, laughing. “I would've disobeyed him.”

“Wait,” Mac says and steps forward, waving his hand in the air. “Chance told you not to tell anyone you saw Dani?”

Even though Chance made a mistake, she still feels guilty outing him to his entire club like this. “Yes.”

“And you started messing with the enemy to get information?”

“I started flirting back with Ian. He was always hitting on me when I was out, and I figured he was the ticket in.”

Mac looks at Chance. “I don't understand-”

“She took the first opportunity she had to fuck the enemy. I don't give a shit what she says or thinks,” Chance explodes.

“You should,” Colt says. “She played a big part in saving Dani.”

“I think he worried I was falling backwards in my denial of her death,” Kara defends. “I was in a dark place after she died... disappeared? I feel like this situation just got so much more confusing. Anyway, I think his worry trumped anything else.”

Shaking her head, Lex narrows her eyes. “That doesn't make sense. Why not say something, even if it's nothing? What happened never made sense, and neither does this.”

“Dax was already on the ledge and ready to jump. He worried I'd push him over the edge, and he didn't want me putting ideas in his mind to create a problem if there wasn't one,” Kara says. “He didn't believe I saw her.”

Chance moves quicker than anyone can react and gets in Kara's face. “You went and fucked the enemy! I think it's safe to say the problem in the relationship was always you, Kara.”

“And it took you one night to fuck the first thing in a skirt,” she counters. “Inourbed.”

“And it was better than anything I ever got from you! Besides, it stopped beingourbed the night you tossed your kutte in my face.”

Tears fill her eyes, and she steps backwards. “I guess I did you a favor then. I was clearly terrible and awful, and you should be happy to be free now.”

“Oh, don't give everyone that pity party shit. It's beneath even you.”

Lex stands and gets between them. “You're deflecting, Chance. Sure, her methods were unorthodox, but she did what you didn't. She tried to find Dani.”

“You didn't believe me, and I did what I had to do when you let me down!” Kara shouts, hating the tears she can't stop. “I hated every minute of what I had to do, but you refused to help me. I had to do something. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't at least try. Seeing her in that basement, it made all the shitty things I had to do worth it. She looked so sick. So... gone.”

“And you told us you were doing this for the club without telling us,” Lex says. “That's why you stared me down as you left. That you were going to be the one to do something.”

Sniffling, Kara nods and wipes her eyes. “I know better than to disobey a member of the club, and I didn't have any other choice.”

“You chose humiliating me and fucking a Kingsmen over disobeying me? I would've rather you told Dax, Kara. Are you fucking stupid?” Chance shouts.

“You would have talked him out of it! Or you would have stopped me,” she says. “You think I don't know you, but I know you better than anyone. You didn't want to believe me, and I think part of it was because then there's no excuse for how upset I was for two years. Why you let me clearly ruin your life. You should've kicked me to the curb when you got sick of me.”

He laughs and shakes his head. “Yeah, play the victim.”

“You didn't give me a choice!” she shouts. “You turned your back on me, and I needed to be a good woman of the club. A good friend. How long would we have let Dani stay with these freaks? They staged a house fire and had us bury a stranger. I sat at the grave and talked to a stranger! These guys are demented. Seriously demented. Trust me.”

“Well, aren't you just a fucking hero, then?”

The tears continue to fall, and Kara gives up trying to stop them. Walking towards the door, she lets out a defeated sigh. “I did what I thought I had to do when you let me down, Chance. I wanted to be what the club needed.”

“A good woman? You think that was a good woman of the club?” Chance shouts and glares at Lex. “Would you fuck an enemy to save someone in the club? Especially an old lady?”

“First, get out of my face,” Lex says, surprising Kara. “And second, fuck yeah, I would. Why say it like that?”

“Like what?”

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