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"She's staying with Lex and Colt," Gavin says, his eyes angrier than Felicity expects.

The couple in question hurries into the main room, adjusting their clothes, and Felicity just shakes her head. "You!"

"What the hell did I do now?" Lex asks and looks at Hailey with concern. "What's wrong? What happened?"

"She grabbed my arm and called me a whore."

Lex whips around to face Felicity, and for the first time in years, a small tremble of fear settles in Felicity's stomach. "You did what?"

"Keep your whore away from my son!"

"Mom, stop!" Gavin pleads, pulling her backwards as Lex winds up.

Melanie, Jace's girlfriend and Lex's hype woman, steps towards them. "Aren't you the teen mom with a pregnant teen at home? Not sure you should be calling anyone a whore. Not unless you're looking in a mirror, sweetheart."

She glares at the box blonde. "Well, if we're going to talk about whores—"

"Shut the fuck up, Felicity," Lex jumps in. "Your issue isn't with Melanie, and it sure as hell isn't with Hailey. But if you ever lay a hand on her or call her any type of derogatory name again, I'll knock your ass out."

Lost to her rage, Felicity swings and manages to hit Lex in the jaw, knocking her backwards a few steps. Gavin's not quick enough to pull her out of the way, and Lex lunges at her, knocking her to the ground. She straddles Felicity, and pain shoots through her face as Lex gets three solid hits in before she's pulled off.

Fuck, that was actually really stupid. Why the hell did I think she wouldn't hit me back?

"Mom, are you stupid?" Gavin shouts. "She will kill you!"

Scrambling to her feet, she wipes the blood from her lip and nose to see Lex shaking everything off. Her eyes lock with Felicity, and she says, "You want nothing to do with Ky anymore, so get the fuck out of this clubhouse. The only thing you want to do is cause problems, and I promise you, if you don't leave now, you're going to wake up in a hospital bed wondering where two days of your life went."

Laughing, Felicity steps towards her even though her brain shouts at her to retreat. Lex cannot win. Not after everything that's happened. "I'm not sure you have the authority to tell me if I'm allowed in here or not considering how many times you've left and come back. Left and come back. Left and come back. They should install a revolving door just for the Drifters' Princess at this point."

"Whatever, Felicity."

"No, you don't get to be indignant when you're nothing but a fucking bitch who runs away whenever things get hard. Did something happen in Summerville? Is that why you came crawling back here with your tail between your legs? Because the last I heard, you had to run away from us to heal. Gotta be pretty hard tohealwhen you rip all the self-inflicted scabs off yourself, isn't it?"

Lex looks ready to murder her, but Felicity refuses to back down. "Get out, or you will push me past the point of no return. I know a hell of a lot more than you want me to. Keep pushing me and see how quickly I knock you off that fucking podium you've got yourself perched so high up on. At this point, it's damn near up your ass, so just turn around and waddle your way out of here."

"Probably in your best interest," Melanie says. "You might get a few others in this room in trouble, too, if you don't. Then youreallywon't have anyone left."

"Fuck you, Melanie!" she shouts. "And you know what, Lex? Fuck you, too. You don't have the balls you think you do."

Lex's eyebrows lift, and she crosses her arms under her chest with a smirk that pisses Felicity off. It also pisses her off that the one hit she got in didn't even break the skin on Lex's jaw.

"You really wanna do this? Because everyone in here, including Rocco who fucking hates me, knows I have balls the size of fucking Texas. You want to see if I'll do it, just say the word. But you're the one popping the top off the can of peanuts, bitch, not me."

"I call bullshit."

Nodding, she looks around the room before landing back on Felicity. "Funny to see you standing in the Deranged Drifters’ clubhouse when about a year ago you were leading the charge to grab your kids and hightail it out of town, never to see your man again. You planned to change your names and start over, which I think is really fucking interesting considering that most of the women in this club are supported by these men. You'd never find a job without any skills to support you and two kids."

The men start to murmur and look around at each other, but Felicity just shakes her head. "That the best you got?"

"Well, how about the emotional affair you had with Gary from Summerville four years ago? You planned on going out there and fucking him when Ky was too pissed to function when Ashley came back, but then you realized he was just a gas station attendant and thought it wasn't worth your marriage."

Fuck, I forgot about Gary.

"What?" Ky asks, walking up to them. "You... What?"

"Want me to keep going? I got a real doozy Ky would love to fucking hear," Lex says, her eyes never breaking away from Felicity.

Don't do it. Just accept defeat and leave."Do your worst, bitch," Felicity says instead.

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