Chapter Forty

I had just wrapped up my storytelling moment, no one uttered a word or moved a single muscle. Martha looked as though she was gonna bolt at any time, while Scott and Cody stood there trying to wrap their heads around what I just told them. "You lied to me" Scott mutters breaking the silence, at first I thought he was talking to me but he turns to Martha "everything you told me was a lie, you cared to leave out why that Tristan boy was trying to kill you, YOU TRIED TO KILL HER!" He shouts loosing his cool, I was more shocked he could actually shout that loud. "You don't understand, I was jealous because Erika had everything, she had the boy, the family and she was just so beautiful" Martha says but I shake my head, this is what she always does! Whenever she's put in a situation where she's in the wrong, she attempts to make you feel bad so you forget about what she did. "You seeing what I'm seeing Erika?" Reece asks me with his arms crossed, I nod my head looking over at Martha "you might be able to trick these two into your lies, but me and Erika have been through and now, can see through everything you're trying to pull" Reece smiles saying exactly what I was thinking, she does this a lot. "You're trying to make everyone feel bad for you, you'll tell them that you had no choice and if you were in a different situation, there would be no way you would have done it" I say putting on a Martha's "feel sorry for me" voice. "That isn't true! You two just don't like me!" She screams attempting to walk towards us, but Scott takes her by the arm which does take her by surprise. "I wouldn't blame Erika if she did hate you, you were plotting to kill her over some guy! She's a bigger person than I am for even standing in front of you now, I don't even know what I would think if I were Cody!" Scott says pulling her away from me, this does make me look up at Cody who was sending daggers over to Martha. "I'm thinking how badly I want to kick you out my pack" he says looking over at Martha, this causes her once again to get in a mood and try to attack me again. "This is all because of you, me and Tristan would have been so happy but you had to take him away!" She screams being held back by Scott once again, I just roll my eyes at how ridiculously annoying she was being. "I can't be done with you anymore Martha, the only reason you're not sat in prison right now is because I choose not to press charges. But standing in front of you right now, I wish I have would" I say looking her dead in the eyes as I spoke "I've had to force myself not to feel just pure hatred for you every time I look at your face, I kept reminding myself that you were going through a blip in your life. But trying to kill me was no blip, I never thought you and Justin were alike at all, now all I see are similarities" I say disgusted as it starts to rain, Martha looks at Scott and begins to break down in his arms. "No please Erika, I'm so sorry okay I didn't mean what I said!" She cries but I just roll my eyes, this is also what she does when she's put in a situation like this. The rain starts to pick up until it was absolutely chucking it down, well that really came out of nowhere. Cody comes beside me handing me his set of keys, he tells me to go in the house while he has a chat with Scott. I nod taking the keys and running up the steps to the house, I unlock the door but turn before I walk in. Cody was talking with Martha who was still in Scott's arms, she shakes her head crying once more saying no over and over again. I just sigh opening the door and walking in, once the door closes I begin to cry myself. I wasn't gonna stand there near Martha and start crying, I needed her to see how strong I was instead of breaking down. I place the keys on the shoe rack that was near the door before making my way into the kitchen, I haven't had to think about what happened in great detail in years. I honestly thought it was behind me, but I guess the past just loves to creep up on you sometimes. I take a seat at the counter just telling myself to stop crying, I was a much stronger person because of what happened. After a couple of minutes I had stopped crying and was staring off into space, I don't think the tears were just about Martha and Tristan. But the conversation I had with my mother before was fresh in my mind, why is everyone trying to bring me down today?! I'm gonna need to have another conversation with her, not for her to explain herself but to tell her she needs to sign the town over to me. Justin needs to pay for what he did to Kayleigh, the only way that's gonna happen is if we take back control of the town. But than another meeting comes into mind, one that I hadn't thought about at all this year. Once a year I go visit Tristan, he's in a mental hospital to try and sort his head out. I'm the only person that actually does, his family doesn't want anything to do with him since what happened. He told me when he first got there that he wanted me to wait for him, but if I didn't I needed to tell him. I've definitely moved on now I've found Cody and it is the time of year that I visit him, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a chat with him. Before I could think of that anymore Cody walks in the kitchen, he was dripping wet due to the rain as he takes his coat off. "So that's why you didn't tell me about Tristan"he says finally knowing his name, he kept asking but I never told him. "What was I meant to say? Oh my ex Tristan and I broke up because he and my apparent best friend tried to kill me, how great that would sound" I sigh looking down at the counter as I spoke, he moves across the room taking my hands in his. "I'm sorry you had to through that, if I would have known that happened I wouldn't have been pushing for you to talk about him" he says as I look up he sends me a smile, I send him one back before his face changes "I also wouldn't have allowed Martha to move in next door, I've told Scott I want them to move into a house down in town" he says as I start to hear doors slamming from next door, round two I guess. "You aren't thinking of stripping Scott's ranks are you?" I ask knowing that was definitely going around his head, he looks at me nodding before looking back to the wall where Scott's and Martha's house was "you can't do that, it wasn't Scott that tried to kill me so why should he have to pay for what she did. Just because they're mates doesn't mean he now has to take responsibility for what she did!" I exclaim knowing if he did strip Scott of his ranks, I would feel immense guilt. "He must be good at his job or you wouldn't have chosen him to do it in the first place, if you want to make them move into a different house, sure go ahead but don't also take his tile away" I say as he moves away from the counter thinking, I remain at the counter just watching him pace up and down. "You're right, but I am still moving them out of that house! I don't feel comfortable having the person who tried to kill my mate living next door, I really wish you would have told me" he says as I just sigh looking down at the counter, this was the main reason I didn't want to say anything. "It's my job to protect you and I've allowed her to live next door, than my parents come over unexpectedly and start insulting you! What kind of mate does that make me?!" He asks picking some glass vase up and throwing it against the wall, the glass smashes everywhere one bit even nearly hitting me. I get up from my seat walking over, one to calm him down and two to save all the items in the house. I didn't want a repeat of the mad cleaning we did back at Reece's, that took awhile. "None or that was your fault, you didn't know what happened with Martha because I hadn't told you and with your parents, you didn't know they were going to show up out of the blue" I say pulling him by the arms away from anymore glass "to be honest you didn't let them talk down to me" I smile remembering how he went off at his mother, he smiles a little holding me in his arms. "No one is ever gonna talk down to you again, I will kill them if they try" he tells me holding me so tightly in his arms, "oh and by the way, I love you too" he smiles holding me tightly, I melt into him really needed this hug knowing what I was about to do tomorrow.