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"Fuck off Bek," Ramsey cried. "Stop trying to ruin everyone's life."
Lexi coughed as if to remind him that she was still in the room, and she was the last person who had had her life ruined by his bitch of a sister.
"I'm not ruining anyone's life. You're doing that all on your own," Bekah said with a wink.
"Bekah, just get out," Ramsey bellowed stomping towards the door and wrenching it open.
Bekah directed her attention back towards Lexi. "Well you'll find out all of his deep dark secrets soon enough. That will be a great day for me," she told Lexi before she began to walk out the door.
"And why is that?" Lexi snapped immediately wishing she hadn't. Bekah fixed her ice cold stare upon Lexi.
"Then you'll be out of everyone's life." With that she turned and walked out.
Lexi stormed after her ready to give her a piece of her mind. She wanted to tell her everything. She wanted to tell her how Jack still wanted her. How that ring on her finger was a goddamn fake. She wanted to tell her all about how she had f**ked her fiancé right under her nose. She wanted to tell her everything, but just as she reached the door Ramsey slammed it shut.
"I'm sorry," he said immediately scooping her up in his arms. "She's wrong. She's all wrong. I don't want you to leave my life."
The desperation in his voice unnerved her and she hugged him back releasing her pent up anger for the moment. When she stepped back, she looked into his bright green eyes which were filled with worry. "I'm not going anywhere," she reassured him.
He blew out the breath he had been holding. "Good."
"But you have to explain what she was talking about," she commanded.
"I will," he said strength and determination returning to his gaze as he realized he wasn't losing her. "Come on. I'll explain once we get there." He grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the office.
Lexi had a million questions to ask him, but she remained silent. The confrontation with Bekah had given her energy unlike anything she had felt in awhile. She could feel herself beginning to bounce off the walls, but she remained quite. She needed Ramsey to explain everything to her, and she wouldn't accomplish that by discussing all of her fears with him. She had too many to even begin to articulate which one came first. Bekah was always somehow able to get into her subconscious and eat away at her inner most fears. She really was the devil!
Numbly, Lexi followed Ramsey back through the lobby, taking the elevator to the parking garage located below the building, and into his waiting Mercedes. Lexi tried to remain calm as they traveled through the city. Her confrontation with Bekah had her on edge. She hadn't thought she was capable of despising her more…but she was wrong.
Not only had she destroyed what Lexi had had with Jack, she was trying to ruin it for her and Ramsey as well. She knew that there was more to the story than that. Bekah was never going to forgive Lexi for being ahead of her in anything especially not with the most important men in her life. She was trapped in the middle of some form of family feud that she wasn't even completely conscious of having entered. Lexi just hoped that she didn't have to continually be under crossfire.
They hadn't been driving for more than ten minutes when Ramsey pulled into a mostly deserted parking lot. There was only one car parked in the far corner facing a tall brick wall. Lexi glanced around apprehensively not liking the secluded nature of their location. Ramsey took the spot directly next to the other car and killed the engine.
"Here we are," he said smiling hesitantly.
Lexi noticed the sign posted into the ground in front of Ramsey's car that read 'reserved.' The sign didn't add any legitimacy to the parking lot that they were sitting in, and she could tell her stomach was doing back flips in anticipation. "Where is here exactly?" she managed to ask turning her head to see if perhaps she had missed something.
"Come on I'll show you," he said opening his door.
"Is it safe?" she asked before he got out of the car. His boisterous laugh as he walked around the car was answer enough. Stepping out of the car, Ramsey took her hand for reassurance before walking to the corner of the parking lot. A large, black, metal door that she hadn't previously noticed was built into the brick wall. Ramsey pulled out a key, unlocked the deadbolt, and swung the door wide for her.
She peered anxiously into the dim light that appeared before her down a long hallway. He ushered her inside before closing and locking the door behind him. "This way," he told her motioning down the hallway.
"Is this where you tell me you're part of the Umbrella Corporation and I'm a test subject?" she asked a stilted laughed following the comment.
Ramsey cocked his head to the side, the smirk on his face telling her that he was amused. "Precisely. I hope you're immune."
"My name isn't Alice."
"Alexa. Alice. Close enough," he said stopping abruptly in front of a door with a brass sign on the front that read 'Employees Only.' Passing through that door, they walked to the end of the barren hallway and into what appeared to be, at first glance, a security room for the entire building. Dozens of monitors lined the walls each showing varying angles of what appeared to be a darkened warehouse. A few showed the lighted hallways they had just entered through along with other locales that Lexi had no knowledge of.
"Ok Ramsey, fill me in. Where the f**k are we?" she asked her feelings of apprehension had only heightened.
"This is where I work," he said flipping several switches on a board. Instantly hundreds of lights began to flicker on all around her. But she realized that despite the number of computer screens filtering light into the room, the majority was coming from straight ahead. Lexi's attention returned to the back of the room that she had originally thought was just a black wall and noticed that in fact it was an enormous window. She stepped forward to look through the panel of glass in front of her, and saw what appeared to be just an empty warehouse in the blackness come to life.
"Is this...a bar?" she asked mystified. Black granite-topped counters lined the walls on the bottom floor with hundreds of glass bottles atop of intricate shelving. High-backed black chairs were tucked into tables in one corner. A dance floor with a stage against the far wall took up nearly half of the room. Carpeted stairs led up to a more secluded area, what she would have guessed to be a VIP section, with posh leather booths and a bar stocked solely with top shelf liquor.
