Page 27 of Secrets

Her response triggers something in Chance, and he leans down, his hands on the table to bring him eye level with her. "You're denying it?"

"I'm telling you that you're crazy. And besides, this is just one of those things we don't talk about. With other people, or with each other."

"You stopped fucking me a week ago, so I can only assume you're getting it from whatever asshole you were with a couple nights ago."

Narrowing her eyes, she says, "Do you hear yourself? We've made so much progress, and you're saying crazy things, Chance. Why do you have to go and do something to ruin this?"

"Then why'd you stop fucking me, huh?"

"Maybe because I'm just not interested in what you're offering."

Lex gasps, and Colt's jaw drops. Lex has balls, but this woman has developed a pair the size of Texas. No, the size of Mexico.

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me."

"I put up with your depressed disinterest without seeking release elsewhere, and just when we get back into the groove of things, you decide you're not interested in what I'm giving you? You weren't complaining weeks ago when I had you calling out God's name."

Placing her chin in her hand, she sighs. "Even the most depressed women can put on one hell of a performance."

"Perform... you're trying to tell me you're faking it?"

"Is this really a conversation you want to have in here?" Kara asks.

Colt puts his lips to Lex's ear. "Any idea what the fuck she's doing?"

"None whatsoever. Looks like a death wish."

"You're out there fucking someone from a rival club, and you think I don't have a right to be mad?"

"I'm saying you sound crazy, Chance."

He laughs and looks around the room. "You're fucking someone that could have had something to do with Dani's death, and I'm the crazy one? She wasyourbest friend."

Kara tilts her head. "But Dani died in a house fire, remember?"

Her comment tells Lex something else happened with all of this, and Dax just shakes his head before shutting himself in theChapel. Kara's trying to piss off Chance, and from the looks of it, she's doing a bang-up job.

"Kara-"

"Stop," she says and stands, walking right past him.

Chance grabs her wrist, and she turns around and whips it from his grasp. Colt tenses under Lex, and she knows it reminds him of the dark time between them. How she'd done the exact same thing when he tried to touch her after she left him. As much as she wants to comfort him, she can't tear her eyes away from the couple putting on the dinner theater show right now.

"You know what? If you wanna leave, fucking leave!" Chance shouts after her.

No one quite knows what to do or say, and they all just awkwardly stare around at each other instead of at Chance. What can anyone say? And looking at him seems like the worst idea in the world at the moment. But they don't have a chance when Kara storms back into the clubhouse carrying something.

"What the fuck is that?" Colt whispers even though they both know what it is.

She tosses the PROPERTY OF kutte with the Hellraisers' logo on it at Chance’s face. They apparently haven't updated the women's leather with the new logo, and Lex's stomach drops when she realizes what Kara just did.

"Yeah, I'm fucking leaving. You let me down, Chance, and you act like I'm crazy. I'm not, but you're a disappointment."

Turning on her heel, she locks eyes with Lex before storming out of the clubhouse, everyone still in shock.

"What the fuck did she look at you for?" Chance asks.

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