Page 25 of Consequences

Lex hops off the table and shrugs before opening the Chapel doors. “I’ll let you know.”

That’s better than being told to go fuck herself. Sighing, she walks into the main room and locks eyes with Venom before leaving out the front door. Tonight isn’t the night to get into a fight with his crazy girlfriend. Especially without knowing if anyone would jump in to help save her.

Time to go home and drown my sorrows as I cry myself to sleep.

Griffin’s Beach

Venom

“What the fuck did she want?” Cinder asks.

“To talk to me,” Lex says and sits back down at her table.

There’s an air of indifference about Lex as she gives his girlfriend the cold shoulder, and Venom is dying to know what Marnie wanted, too. He doubts she’ll tell him. All part of this master plan of having him decide his own destiny.

“About what?”

“That’s between me and her.”

“And I want to know what the fuck’s going on,” Cinder demands.

Eyebrows raised from everyone around them, Venom included, shows the shock at Cinder’s audacity. Lex turns and faces her. “You can want all you want, hunny, but it doesn’t change a damn thing.”

“That woman is testing me,” Cinder mutters and looks at Venom. “What the fuck was she doing here?”

“Did you see me go into that room? No, I’ve been your chair this entire night, so I have no fucking clue.”

“I saw that look you two shared. You wanna fuck her? Go ahead, but just know I will slit her goddamn throat.”

His hands wrap around her neck, and he squeezes with enough force to stop her talking. “Touch her, and I’ll call in every favor I have to make sure it’s the last fucking thing you ever do.”

“You still love her.”

“I’m with you, so get out of your fucking head. It’s dangerous enough when you’re not a possessive twat.”

The way he talks to Cinder would never be how he talks to Marnie.Fuck, I really can’t love Cinder, can I?

The insult makes Cinder smile, though. “You have no idea how right you are.”

Releasing her throat, he relaxes. He’s focuses on Lex and tries to figure out what happened to her face. Everyone who may know seems to be keeping their mouths shut, including her, and all he knows is that it was likely some type of fight. But with who?

Shep and Heidi join the rest of them in the room, and Venom gets pulled from his thoughts when Heidi points to Cinder. “You know her?”

“Don’t point your fucking finger at me,” Cinder calls, jumping off Venom’s lap and standing. “I will tear you from limb to limb.”

“Sit the fuck down,” Shep snaps and steps between the two women.

The one thing Venom can’t stand about Cinder is her quick trigger. She has no control over her emotions, and she goes from one to a hundred in less than a second.

“Watch how you talk to me, asshole.”

“No, you watch how you speak to him,” Heidi says, stepping around Shep and pushing him behind her.

“I will rip out your fucking throat.”

Melanie jumps up and stalks over to them. “I’d like to see you try.”

“What’s this? A two-for-one special on whores?”

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