Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“Yes, we will both be charging him with accounts of assault and grievous bodily harm. How can a man do that, and then have all the evidence removed from everywhere, stop everyone from seeing what he’s truly like, and get away with it? It just goes to show everyone he’s hiding behind his money. We’ll not be letting it go, I have the original footage on my phone, and I’ll not be paid off to delete it. I’ll just keep re??osting it.”
“Is Marilyn Riddley really Marrin Reeves?”
one reporter asked, and they all went quiet waiting for the answer.
“No, she is not. I have been working with Marilyn as her agent for 10 years now. I’ve never heard her name mentioned in conjunction with Mr Reeves, or his late wife Marrin, though he told Marilyn he was her ex??usband. So, what is that? Is his wife dead or are they divorced? What is that man hiding?
“From my limited knowledge of the research I’ve done tonight, his wife, Marrin, died eight years ago, so how can Marilyn be a deceased person? I’m sorry, but I think the man is obsessed with his dead, or ex??ife, who the hell knows. But that doesn’t mean that he can go around raging and assaulting anyone, that just happens to look like Marrin Reeves.
“Which I believe he does. How many women has he sent to jail that look like her? Think about it, now he targets a well??nown author, because she happens to look like one Marrin Reeves. It’s utterly ridiculous, and he must be held accountable for the attack not only on Marilyn, but myself as well.”
Then they’d walked inside.
“Thought a lot about it have you on the drive back here?”
Marilyn murmured.
“Mm, I have, he’s going to try and weasel his way out of it… Already is trying to cover his own ass, so I want to have everyone thinking about those other women, and what he might potentially try to do to you in the future; remain a threat.”
“You should have gone into law,”
Marilyn stated.
“Ah, my whole family are lawyers.”
She chuckled.
“I also studied it, and just opted not to do it for a profession.
“She smiled at Marilyn,
“He and his lawyers will find I’ll be tough to crack.”
she chuckled.
Calvin
He was having it all pulled down from the internet as quickly as he could. By the time he’d driven just halfway to his apartment, his phone had been ringing and Wil had lit up the screen in his car to indicate who was calling. He’d hit the answer button on the steering wheel.
“Didn’t I tell you it wasn’t her,”
had been ropped out at him furiously.
“Do you know what I’m looking at right now?”
It was, he thought, a rhetorical question, because Calvin was driving, so no he had no idea what that man was looking at, it could be almost anything at all.
“No.”
had been his answer.
“You out there on the freaking street in public, casing a scene by assaulting Marilyn Riddley and her agent, from the publishing house. It’s all over the bloody internet, several people caught it on their phones, three different angles of it, and now all footage of it is posted for all to see.”
Will had grated out at him.
“You, yanking Marilyn about by her hair! That’s going to bloody help you. I told you it wasn’t her, to bloody stay away from her.”
Wil yelled at him.
“It is bloody Marrin.”
He yelled right back.
“It’s not.”
Wil grated out.
“It bloody is, I have proof. I went and got a book signed by her. It’s Marrin’s handwriting.”
“I highly doubt that. It’s been a long time since you’ve seen her handwriting. Don’t you think you could possibly be wrong?”
“No,”
Calvin snapped,
“I’m not f*****g wrong, it’s her I tell you.”
“Get your ass to the office, the police are going to be looking for you. That agent, she followed through on her threat to you.”
Wil had snapped
“called the police, it was caught by another passerby that was filming it. They will be coming to question you after those two make their statements, a few hours tops and the police will be looking for you.”
and then the line was cut.
Calvin punched his steering wheel and turned the car around to head for his office, because that was where he actually needed to be. Not only was his lawyer there, so was his tech department, and he needed them right now.
It had been all of 20 minutes, and already it was all over the internet. That woman was quick to post things. he thought, as he’d stalked into his building and gone right to his office to see it for himself. Only to see that it wasn’t the agent that had posted it either, one person on the street had captured it right from when he’d stepped up to Marrin. While another had been filming him secretly right from when he’d been waiting by his car for her to come out of the bookstore, watched him while he was watching her from the street, and that person had actually had the hide to follow him, filmed him stepping up to her.
Got it all right from the very beginning all the way until he’d walked away.
It could only have been someone who knew he’d been in the book store and not left, someone out to make a buck off him, likely sold that footage to every damned tabloid and paper in town. They have to know someone in the Industry or be in the industry themselves, he realised. They could well have been a reporter or paparatzie, just walling to see the fall??ut and, boy hadn’t they got it showed everything, his menace and her trying to walk away, yelling at him to get away from her and him pulling and shoving her about, him knocking her agent over and yes, grabbing Marrin by the hair. Nothing was missed, not even him walking away or the tears Marrin had shed, and dashed away
He called his tech department and got them right on it, bringing everything down, deleting all the videos and shutting those threads that made mention of it and within two hours it was gone, and he’d leaned back into his chair and muttered
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On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.