Page 80 of Constantine: Britain's Story: Part 2
“Britain, can you please go back inside? I don’t want you to have to deal with this when Matt comes to and the sheriff gets here.” I nod absentmindedly and head back through the front door. I walk, in a daze, to the back deck, and wave for Carly to come back in.
When she gets to the top level of the deck, I let her know that it’s taken care of and the sheriff will be here soon.
“Maybe we should take lunch down at the dock, if that’s okay?”
“Absolutely, I’ll bring it out as soon as it’s done,” she says.
“Sorry, to make it difficult, Carly. I appreciate it.”
“Brit, please don’t worry about it. I’m happy to help.” She lowers her voice, “Do you think I should send James out there?”
I shake my head. “No, not at all. Alex could take the whole town of Spearhead single-handedly. They’ll be fine.”
Carly laughs. “Oh, okay…” but trails off to head back into the kitchen.
I make my way down the steps to the dock to find Jess sitting in an Adirondack chair with Eden in a Pack-n-Play napping beside her. Caroline, Elodie, and James are all out in the cove paddle boarding.Thank god.
Jess sees me and immediately knows something is up. “What happened?” she asks, sitting up abruptly and sliding her sunglasses to the top of her head.
“Umm, Matthias is probably getting arrested on the front lawn right now.”
“Shut the fuck up!” Jess says, little to no real concern in her voice. “I thought it was weird Alex was just hanging around this morning. Girl, what is going on?” She gets up, pulling another Adirondack chair closer to hers, then guiding me to sit.
“So much, Jess. So, so much. I don’t even know where to start.”
“Well, start at the Greek Fest because I’ve been dying to know what’s going on since then.”
I inhale deeply, and I back it up and tell her. All about the Greek Fest, meeting Julie, running into Liam, deciding between him and Matthias.Ha, that’s fucking laughable now.I tell her about sleeping with Matthias, and how he left things on Saturday night. I tell her about Liam finding me on the porch, and staying the night. Then me reading the letter and coming here. I conveniently leave out the part about Gina. I’d like Liam to stay in her good graces.
But I tell her about the argument and how that led to me fainting, the hospital, and Liam staying with us, just to have us now staying with him. I tell her about us fucking in the closet that morning, and how since then we can’t seem to stop. She finally interjects on that note.
“Yeah, I mean, I could deduce the fucking. I would highly recommend not giving one of the girls the room I’m staying in because I can hear you guys, FYI.”Fuck. Good intel, though.Itell her about Liam begging for my forgiveness, and how I’m still so fucking madly in love with him.
“And so you knew I was supposed to meet with Matthias today. I was going to tell him that it’s officially over, but when I texted him, he got pissed and called me. He was yelling at me, calling me a whore and a desperate little slut with daddy issues. And yeah, it was a lot, but I thought that was the end of it. I felt like crap about it, so I stayed upstairs just fucking crying until Liam and the girls got back. And then we, um, had a thing in the closet, and we’re back together now. But when we came downstairs, we heard a door slam, and Liam went out, and there’s Matthias yelling at Alex.”
“Whoa, he was fucking closet crazy?!”
“I guess. It doesn’t fully make sense to me, though.”
“You fucking ripped his heart out,” Jess says.
“But that’s the thing, I don’t think I did. He’s pissed, but like he was fighting more with Alex than Liam. That’s weird, right?”
Jess shrugs. “I don’t know, girl, but apparently that’s one powerful pussy you have right there. You’ve got one man falling to his knees and another losing his mind.”
I burst out laughing. “Okay! Shut the hell up! But, hopefully, that’s the end of all that craziness because I really just want to hang out with you and enjoy the lake.”
“And get some good dick,” Jess laughs out.
“Are you talking about me or you?” I turn to look at her, but she’s sort of staring off now. “Jessssss,” I shake her arm, “talk to me, please. I just told you Liam forced me back into a relationship over anal. Come onnnnn.”
Jess looks at me and says, “Okay, yeah. I need to hear how the fuck that happened because you left out a few crucial words when you just told me a minute ago.” I laugh at her.
“Not until you talk to me first.” I’ll take a page out of Liam’s book.
“It’s just really hard.” When she turns to look at me, she has tears in her eyes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jess cry. Scratch that,I knowI’ve never seen Jess cry before.
“Babe…” I reach out for her hand, and she lets me take it.
