Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 104

CH 104

Marilyn

For the next three days, she saw those two boys get home from school and run off to check the mailbox. She

knew they were looking for a new phone to arrive, they’d not once coughed up the truth of what they’d done. That they’d told Calvin everything about that trip, and with that old phone gone she wondered if they actually thought they’d gotten away with it. There would be no conversation thread on a new phone.

Now it was Friday afternoon, and they’d just come back from checking the mail. Her two children were now

standing before her in her writing studio. She’d never actually hidden that phone. It was where she’d left it on Tuesday morning, on the corner of her desk. They’d just not come in here during the past three days was all.

Now they were in here and both of them could see it was right there.

Callum reached out for it, and she simply moved out of his reach. “Mum?”

“Yes Callum.” She asked right back.

“Is that dad’s phone for us?” he asked.

“Mm, I guess, seeing as he bought it, you could call it his phone. But technically it is my phone, not yours or

Vincents. It was given to me to check his whereabouts every day, not for you to do so. That was a privilege I

granted you. So it’s my phone.” She reminded them.

“You told us it fell in the creek,” Callum stated as he stared at her.

“Is there something the two of you need to tell me?” she asked right back.

They shook their heads no.

She could, however, see that they were both now looking at the phone. “Do you two recall the rules around this phone?” she asked and picked it up, and opened it when they just nodded. “Because I recall the rules clearly, no phone calls or texting and I believe the phone was to stay in the house at all times, never leave it.” she repeated the rules “They were the rules yes?”

“Yes.” They nodded.

Marilyn turned the phone around to show them the texts that had gone between themselves, and Calvin and their eyes fell to the floor. “Do you recall what I said would happen if you broke them?” she went on and saw them both nod slowly. “I stated you’d have no more access to it. That is all I did.”

“You lied about the phone being lost in the creek,” Vincent murmured.

“It doesn’t feel very nice now, does it, to be lied to about something important.” She countered and then closed the phone and put it back on the desk next to her. “I did not want Calvin to know about that new

house, and now he does. Right down to where it is,” she muttered.

“He’s our dad, and we didn’t want him to worry,” Callum stated.

“What would he worry about if the phone was still here? What is the difference between it always being in the house since it was given to me, and it staying in the house for that weekend… Nothing is what.” She stated right back. “But now I have to worry about finding another place for us to go if he’s not a nice person. I don’t know him, you two don’t know him either.” she stated simply, “I guess having a dad is more important to you than my own safety, yours even.” She sighed heavily “Because what happened to me the last time he saw me,

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where did I end up.” she reminded them when they said nothing “Go Inside, you’re both grounded to your rooms all weekend for breaking all of the rules, and then not telling me what you’d done even now, that you can see I have the phone, did you think I wouldn’t check it myself?”

“Mum, he’s our dad,” Callum stated.

“I’m aware of that fact.” She nodded, then gave the phone a push, and it slid across the desk towards Callum, “Take it, and go ahead and talk to him if that’s all you care about.” She muttered.

She watched Callum pick up the phone and shook her head slightly. “No, you’re not. Only sorry you got caught is all. Go to your rooms.” She waved them out of her office.

They went, and she sighed heavily as she leaned back in her chair. She’d tried to guilt–trip them about that phone, a little wrong, but Callum didn’t even appear to care. Vincent had apologised but not Callum. What she’d done was in all likelihood wrong of her, but what if Calvin was actually a terrible person out to really harm her? Those two boys had just told him where that safe haven house was.

She did understand they wanted to meet and get to know their dad, and she was going to let them, had never once stated she wouldn’t. She had in fact told them it was up to them. It was only five weeks now until that day came. It seems they were as impatient as Calvin himself was and couldn’t stick to the rules laid out for

“You’re grounded to your rooms.” She stated simply “that means no technology until Monday.” They knew the rules about being grounded.

“He seems nice.” Vincent murmured.

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