Love Punched | COMPLETED

49. Bittersweet

1 WEEK LATER

(Lila's P.O.V)

"You can be discharged today!!" Nora looked like she was going to cry.

"Yeah well, she had to pay for keeping secrets." Warren shot me a sharp look. He may or may not have been a bit irritated that I'd been planning to risk myself all along.

To be honest, I'd been too preoccupied by my plans of revenge and facing Roy to be worried about my status of life. But I'd certainly not been aiming to die. Or get a surgery because of the abdominal stab wound that touched my liver.

But this was reality.

I frowned playfully, "Hey, it's the other way round. You guys already knew I was The Wildcat."

Michael scratched his brow. "It wasn't hard to realize that you know? If we didn't, we'd have been really dumb. I mean, you never came to Blue with us, especially to watch The Wildcat and it's not like we didn't try finding you. You had mysterious bruises at times and you'd gotten better only after Blue started and Diego came here." He shrugged. "It wasn't too hard to figure out, Lila. Really. We just didn't confront you because we wanted to give you time and space."

"I think you gave her too much of time and space, though." Rebecca snickered, her outfit stylish while I wore a hospital bag for clothes.

"You're one to speak." Nora nudged her and Rebecca cringed.

I smirked, "Yeah, Leopard, don't be too mouthy."

She rolled her eyes.

Secret identities, my foot. The people in this room new everything.

Well, the cat was out of the bag anyways and I loved that me and my friends were no longer hiding anything from each other. The ordeal had made us a tighter group and I was even coming to accept Rebecca

Rebecca who'd been The Leopard.

Although I didn't know her entire stroy, she did reveal to us that her father had been involved in the Cosa Nostra's work and she was being blackmailed by them. Derek told me how he'd seen her deliver the letters through RIck and she accepted it. She apologized to me about her actions and the pain she knowingly put me through but I guess I could understand the place she was coming from. Her home life was in turmoil and survival must have been on her mind.

But I think the easy forgiveness came from the fact that Rebecca had been helping my cause too. Diego had told her to do something as a signal because he'd predicattaed that they'd be caught by Roy's men and intentionallymade Ana and Rebecca cross paths. And Rebecca had turned the tables, firing a shot that alerted Diego.

It was pretty smooth to be frank.

I'd noticed how most of the adults in our town had been on the wrong side of the law, doing wrong things and had pretty much ruined their children's lives. Maybe they did it out of greed, maybe because they wanted to give their families a better life but all it ended up doing was suck them down the wrong path and into a life that ruined not just them but their entire families.

Michael, Rebecca, Veronica.

It was sad. Pitiful.

Derek's hands settled on my shoulders and it was a comforting touch I adored. "I think it was pretty cool how you suppressed Ana, just to be honest."

If he wasn't hurt and didn't have one of his hands wrapped in gauze from the knife wound, I'd have liked to hurt him there all over again but alas.

Rebecca's lips tilted upwards and...I don't think she's completely over Derek. Warren glanced at her and then me, his smile softeneing with something I couldn't describe.