Page 33 of Grave Kisses
“What?” Marcus asks.
“Uhm… So… Archer texts me… Like every day,” I say.
“Collier told us,” Marcus says before kissing me. “He has been watching your texts and calls since the day we met him.”
“Oh… Well, never mind then,” I say. “Has he given any information about whether they found anything on the property? They still haven’t released it back to me.”
“No, but I’m betting they found something,” Marcus says. “It takes a while for DNA to come back, so they could be getting all of the information they can before saying anything.”
“Yeah,” I say. “I’m planning on selling the property, so it’s not a huge deal.”
“So, let’s tell everyone what’s going on. I am willing to bet they are here and waiting for us to get up,” Bellamy says. “Maybe after we can meet up with Collier.”
“Uhm… I think he is here too,” Marcus says, looking at his phone. “Let’s go down.”
We all get dressed before going downstairs. One of them must have gone to the basement and brought my stuff up because they had everything up in the room. I can’t say I’m not glad, because I am. I feel as though they should be mad at me, but they aren’t. They’re supportive of my mental health.
“She’s coming down. Someone catch her at the bottom,” Marcus calls out, and everyone cackles as we get to the bottom of the stairs.
“You’re an ass,” I laugh.
“You really wanna talk about ass, baby girl?” Marcus asks.
“No,” I say with a grin.
“I thought so.” He kisses the top of my head before sitting down and pulling me into his lap. Bellamy sits beside us and takes my legs into his lap.
“So nothing broken, I assume?” Martin asks.
“Nope. She’s okay,” Marcus says. “But we have a few things we need to discuss as a group. Collier, I’m glad you are here because we wanted to talk to you as well.”
“I’m all ears,” he says.
“Want us to explain?” Bellamy asks.
“Yeah. I’ll… show them the other part,” I say.
“Alright,” Bellamy says. “So, Kendra opened up about what was going on. In short, she was convinced Archer would get to her. So in an effort to stay in control, she made plans to kill herself before Archer could get to her. She kept her distance because of that. I do believe we are at the other end of that now, so she is in a much better place since we’ve talked.”
“I’m proud of you for opening up,” Martin says to me.
“Which leads us to the next part…” Marcus says. I get up and get the pictures out of my bag and hand them to Julie first.
“Oh my God!” Julie yells. “You better not be fucking kidding, bitch.”
“I’m not,” I laugh. She tosses the pictures of the ultrasound at Jesse before launching herself at me.
“I’m so happy for you, baby. Fuck, this is amazing. I love this!” she says. Jesse is giddy as she waits to be able to hug me. Noel and Martin are in tears when we look over at them.
“No. Fuck. Don’t do that,” I sniff. “Goddamn it, Martin.”
“I’m so happy for you, sweetheart,” Martin says as he hugs me tightly. “Alan would be so happy.”
“Last night… I forgot he was gone for a second. I wanted to call and tell him.”
“I’d like to think he is looking down on you smiling right now,” Noel says after hugging Marcus and Bellamy. “He loved you so much.”
“So…” Collier says, looking at the photos. “Both of you will help raise the babies?”
