>>20600132Lexi shakes her head vigorously. “It was nothing like that, love, I swear it.” Lexi swallows hard. She had no option here but to tell the truth, but she simply couldn’t picture Cassie being at all receptive to it. Still, she had to try. “Look, what I’m going to tell you might come as a surprise, but I need you to keep an open mind and if you give me a chance, I promise I can prove it’s all true.” She takes a deep breath. “How much do you know about your mum, love?”
“She was a… what does my mother have to do with any of this?” Cassie hisses.
“Did she ever tell you anything about HER mother? Our Grandmother?” Lexi insists.
“My mother was a sick woman, ok? And by the time she had Nikki, she was spending more time talking to herself than me or anyone else. Then one day she killed herself, and left me to raise Nikki on my own and unless you give me an answer I want to hear in the very near future, I’ll be sending you to join her.” Cassie snaps her fingers, and a henchman approaches, gun in hand.
“WAIT, WAIT, WAIT!” Lexi shouts. “Please… I've got way too much living left to do to die here... like this. But if you just let me explain, you’ll understand how that man I was with ended up dead, and a whole lot more.” A single tear trickles down Lexi’s cheek. “So please don’t kill me. Ok?”
Cassie sighs. This woman was the first living relative to come into her life since the day her mother died. Having to dispose of her would be… unfortunate. “Go on,” Cassie says.
