Chapter 8

And the arguments about which color to paint the baby’s room. Callum was partial to light green with a forest themed border, while Jack preferred a circus wallpaper. For some reason, though, Callum had this thing for clowns, he called them Satan’s right hand. Jack was pretty sure it wasn’t a werewolf thing, just Callum being unreasonable, but his lover firmly insisted, “Over my dead body”, and the discussion was put on ice.

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“I’m actually glad you called, Jack. What do you want for dinner tonight?”

“Callum…”

“What’s wrong? What happened?”

“Nothing’s wrong. I just wanted to hear your voice.”

“Yeah, well, yourvoice sounds all funny and weird, so don’t tell me nothing’s wrong, man. Come on, you know I can’t smell you over the phone, you have to tell me what happened.”

“Just a tough case. Nothing creature related, just…people being horrible to each other.”

“Have you been crying?”

“Maybe.”

“Come home. Now.”