THEO AND REED'S BABY FEVER : Book Three

Chapter Twenty

        ( Texts)

Theo : Matt ! Are you all ok ?

Matt : Yeah. Why?

Theo : Thank God. I'll call you later. Right now Reed and I need to talk to the cops.

Matt : Theo ? Cops ? About Vanessa? Are you all ok ?

Theo : Tell you later. Oh and my friend, my good friend, we are done sleuthing. Fun or not , clear my name or not, we are done. Even if I end up a Prison Wife it's not worth it.

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Reed : Saint, are you and your family alright?

Saint: Yessss. Matt and I are watching a movie on the sofa. Olivia is sleeping soundly for once. I love day offs. They better not page me.

Reed : I'll tell you more later but keep your doors locked and your gun close.

Saint glanced from his phone over to his husband who was fiddling with his own phone. His brow wrinkled with worry and concern. And not just for his own family. He hoped his friends knew what they were doing. Then he went to check the locks and grab his gun.

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After Theo had taken the child outside to wait for the police while poor Reed guarded the dead woman's body he entertained the child by playing children's music from YouTube on his phone. Benji clapped his little hands joyously and sang along. Then the ambulance arrived to collect Samantha Martin.

And the police to suspiciously question both Reed and Theo who stuck to the original story of making a sympathy call on Samantha Martin when they found her dead and Benji alone. The cops took their statements and basically told them to beat it. But neither Reed nor Theo felt comfortable leaving the child until social services came to get him. The cops made them leave though. One took Benji from Theo's arms rather roughly to his thinking. Benji started to cry then and reached out for Theo.

" Want Heo ! Want Heo ! ," he sobbed. " Want Mommy! Want Mama ! Want Heo ! " His tiny hands  tried to grab hold of Theo's tee shirt. All  Theo and Reed could do was stand there and let them take him away to a social worker who had just arrived. Benji was still crying as the social worker held him. Reed gave the woman their contact information and asked if they could be notified of his well being. Theo closed his eyes and tried to block out the child crying as the woman carried him away. It was breaking his heart. Reed hugged him tightly. 

Theo held him back and kissed him before heading back to an officer with his phone to show them the text message he had received.

The threat to his family.