Bella wasn't sure what brought an abrupt end to Regina's speech, but wasn't going to question. Regina had a tendency to take everything the wrong way and make things about herself when others were trying to explain their own suffering. That sort of insensitivity was one of the reasons Bella had cut ties with her to begin with, and it was not an argument she hoped to begin again.

Then again, her friend could be feeling guilt or have her own troubles that she'd withheld—it wasn't as if they'd had contact recently. A lot had happened, and she was living proof that shit could surely hit the fan!

"Perhaps you need some air; it's stuffy in here." In other words: maybe you should go calm down.

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