Chapter 224

There was a fine line between endurance and being able to listen to shit from someone that was below you, someone that you could easily crush with the stomp of your foot and Regina's sanity had been playing along the edges of that line, using it like it was a jump rope. And the moment she heard those words from Bellatrix, shit finally snapped. She didn't stop to think. Mary's voice blurred into the back of her mind like unwanted noise as she lurched forward, grabbing Bellatrix by the throat. The latter was surprised, caught off guard by her sudden attack even though half her mind had been ready for something like this. But before she could think to react, her body was already falling to the floor with Regina on top of it. Her back connected with the cold, damp floor, knocking air out of her for a second. Her head spun, she was sure after that fall, she had sustained a mild concussion. But she barely had time to play doctor. Not when Regina, with her fingers closing around her throat, g