@lovestoodeep said: "Take your hands off him 'cause he's the only one that I have ever loved."
“Him?” The question was incredulous, but she did push Joseph away from herself, mostly for Lila’s sake and a small part for his own sake. “What about me? Us?” she asked, her eyes narrowing, and she turned her head, the brewing bitterness palpable. “You loved me once, Lila, am I so little to you now?”
Joseph knew he could have protected himself (or at least attempted to), but refused to strike Lina. 1, because Cordelia would be furious. 2, because he was pretty sure Lina would stab him. 3, because he didn’t want to be that man anymore. So he wiped the blood from his lip, where she’d collided her forehead with moments ago, and straightened the wrinkles out of his shirt from where she’d gripped him. He took a whole step back to be safe. “Lina, be reasonable.”
“No, you hurt her.” She didn’t care if they’d both called it an accident. She’d kill Joseph for it if she could. Even if she seemed half crazy at the moment. She hadn’t been sleeping well and so what. She refused to sit by and see Lila hurt even by accident, it was enough. Lila and Michael deserved better than this idiot.