Yes, Bella has never scrupled to leave anything off the table. Particularly when she smells any sort of weakness.


By the way, Hydra seems to believe you merely felt betrayed by her attachment to the boy, and that is why you've reversed your support (tentative though it was) of their promise to each other.


That wasn't the whole reason, was it?


How is Mrs Sandoval-Pennifold? It did not escape my notice that you've written her for the first time in a long while.