"Lex? Lex would just join in." Freddie sighed and shook his head. "You don't understand it. You can't. You were the one who started it. Besides, what proof is there that we were doing anything?" That was why he'd taken Anatoly out of the compound. He didn't want some random person walking in on them. It would have to be some nonrandom person walking in on them.

"We fight because it's what we do." It was their relationship. They hated each other, they grudgingly liked each other, they needed each other, they couldn't stand to be together.