Free Stay With Me by A. C. Marchman Page B

to use me as his teddy bear and he made me way too hot,” I giggle and she joins in.  
     
    “Ha!  I know the feeling.  Adam does the same crap to me,” she shakes her head.  “Well, since you’re awake, you wanna come downstairs with me?  I’m getting everything ready for the bride and bridesmaids.  We’re getting dressed in the main bathroom.”
     
    “Bathroom?  Is there enough room in there?” I ask, honestly puzzled.  Then I remember.  I’m in the Callahan mansion, of course there is enough room.  We begin walking down the hallway towards the stairs.
     
    “Trust me, you could probably use it as the locker room for the Falcons.  We use it for weddings. Thank God I don’t have to clean it,” she laughs.
     
    “Can I get ready with you girls?  I mean, if it’s okay?”  Since I’m used to having Livey put my makeup on for me, maybe one of them can give me a hand.  If I try to do it, I look like Crayola tried to gangbang my face.  
     
    “Of course you can!  You’re practically family in my eyes.” Megan’s lips curl up to reveal a perfect white smile, just like her brother’s.  I flush at her comment.  Part of the family?   “Donovan is really happy with you.  I can tell.”  
     
    “I would like to think so,” I say.  The thought of making him happy makes my heart do flips inside my chest.
     
    “Girl, he’s crazy about you.  Every time I talk to him, the conversation always turns to you.  I’ve never seen him this way.” She stares off in the distance.  “In fact, I can’t think of a single person that has ever had this effect on him.  Not even Claire.”  I flinch at the mention of her name.
     
    “What do you know about her?”  I don’t want to pry too much, but getting Donovan to talk about it is like trying to pull teeth.  Maybe his baby sister can clue me in.
     
    “Mostly everything I know is from the gossip magazines,” Megan rolls her blue eyes and shakes her head.  “She wasn’t very nice to my brother.  He always complained about how she treated him or how much of a stalker she was.”  
     
    Oh God,  “She stalked him?  Why would you need to stalk your boyfriend?”
     
    “She apparently had some trust issues, among other things that were wrong with her.  He told me that she would cause a scene if a girl even looked in his direction.  I mean, that’s psycho.”  I notice that she runs her fingers through her hair, too.  Donovan and Megan could be twins if it wasn’t for the age difference.  
     
    “I should have known.  She seems like she could be crazy,” I mutter, mostly to myself.
     
    “Has Donovan told you that she may have killed her husband because of him?” she says in a quiet voice that I almost couldn’t hear.
     
    I whip my head around to look at her.  “Well, not exactly.  I actually asked him myself and he said he didn’t know for sure, but it’s possible.”
     
    She lets out a sigh.  “As much as my brother wanted to keep it a secret, we all suspected he was seeing Claire while she was still married to Frank.  I mean, we don’t know for how long because he didn’t talk about it much.  He never even mentioned her name until they came out publicly as a couple.”  She bites her bottom lip, making it look like she’s thinking about the next words that come out her mouth.  “I think she did it for Donovan, but in the trial, it came out that Claire had taken out a two hundred million life insurance policy on her husband only a week before he died.  That made her look awfully guilty.”  She shakes her head in disgust.  “Claire is an evil, psycho bitch that will stop at nothing to get what she wants.  That’s why I’m glad she’s never getting out of prison.  At least, I hope not.”
     
    I swallow the lump in my throat that has formed while Megan was talking.  I guess I knew all along that she killed her husband because of Donovan, but to hear it from his own sister’s mouth is surreal.