Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“Someone knows the routine.”
“Mm, I’ve been in the ICU before,”
Marilyn told her.
“Alright, can you tell me what your pain is, on a scale of one to ten, one being no pain and 10 being the worst pain you’ve ever felt?”
she was asked.
“Hmm, it’s not the worst pain I’ve ever felt… The headache is about a seven, and my body,”
she thought about that comparing it to the last time she’d been in the ICU.
“About a six.”
“Alright, would you like pain relief? The doctor has charted you some PRN.”
7 would. Mostly for my headache though.”
Marilyn stated
“Can I take this off?”
She touched the Hudson mask she was wearing.
1 think so.”
Georgia nodded as she looked at the obs machine.
“Your saturation is good 98%, I’ll switch it to nasal prongs for you.”
she nodded after taking down all the obs on a chart.
“Thank you.”
Marilyn nodded and winced as she felt pain in her head.
“My children?”
she asked.
“I believe they have been taken to get some dinner with Lisa and Hamilton. They were all here, just left about 10 minutes ago, well??ehaved boys you have. Just sat quietly the whole time.”
Marilyn sighed,
“Rambunctious normally.”
“Not at the moment. I’ll put a call in to Lisa, she’s your contact here at the hospital, and I’ll let her know you’re awake.”
“How long have I been out?”
Marilyn asked.
Georgia looked at her watch and then stated,
“Just over four hours.”
Four hours she thought to herself, it would be dinner time and that was why Lisa had taken the boys away. They must have been so very worried about her, scared because they knew it was just her and them. They had no legal guardian if something happened to her, because she had no memory of who she’d been, or who their father could possibly be.
She couldn’t just ask Lisa to take them in, that just wasn’t right. They’d met through the publishing house and though she did consider her a friend, she had no idea if Lisa would want to do something like that. It just wasn’t right to appoint her their guardian.
Both boys had trust funds in their names; she’d put five million into them. The interest had grown over the years and had seen them now be just over eight million, and they would continue to grow, and the boys were to receive them at 18 if something happened to her, but at 25 if nothing happened to her. They were set for life, and she knew it. It was all she could do for them, having no memory of her past.
Everything else she owned was to be split equally between them. All they needed was someone to look after them, an enduring guardian. Her attorney had the power of attorney for her children if something happened to her.
That thought led her to the very reason she was in this hospital, one Mr Calvin Reeves. She had no actual memory of that man and her having any involvement with him at all. But he certainly believed she was his ex??ife. What if that was actually true and she was? That would mean that Cal and Vin were Calvin’s, and they would have someone to look after them.
She closed her eyes and sighed to herself in that room. Did she really want that after all he’d done? Look at where she was because of that man. She didn’t think he was going to be a good or kind person. He appeared to her to be obsessive??ompulsive with abusive tendencies.
If he was willing to attack her, who he thought was his ex??ife, twice in the space of just two days, it was pretty clear to her that he didn’t like his ex??ife at all, and so that meant he wouldn’t treat the children any better either, or not in her eyes anyway.
If she was who he thought she was, this was likely the very reason that she had run away from him. Clearly, she would have changed her name in an effort to hide from him, though she also knew that she’d been writing before she’d left him, and he obviously knew nothing about that at all. If she was his ex??ife she’d had a secret life from him, likely so that one day she could run the hell away from him, and live off her own money.
What was she going to do with this bit of information she now had? She didn’t know, because she had no idea if she actually was this Marrin Reeves, though her boys did look just like him, and then there was that she had named them in what would seem to be after him.
Though she did know that already, but had kind of let it slip her mind after all this time, she only thought about it now because she was thinking about him, and them, in conjunction with each other. Along with what had happened to her back then and the timeline of everything she now knew. That day of her accident, the man she’d called that day, who had never come looking for her, not even once, had been Calvin.
She had learned to let it go years ago, whoever that man Calvin had been that she’d called? He’d not wanted her, had not searched for her or reported her missing, from all the police had said, so her boys were just that, her boys, Cal and Vin.
Though now she had real concerns, because the last person she’d called causing her own accident, a part of her had always believed that, that man was her children’s father. So she’d named them after him in her own way. Now a part of her wondered if that was such a good idea at all.
Considering what Calvin Reeves looked like, and how he had behaved for the past two days towards her, if he was her ex??usband she didn’t want to know the truth, he could, as far as she was concerned, just go away and stay the hell away from her and her boys. She hoped he never laid eyes upon them.
Seeing them was likely only going to make him more insistent on her being his ex??ife, considering they looked just like him, their names joined together would make his, and they would be the right age even for his missing wife to have left him if she’d been pregnant at the time.
A part of her wondered if she was his ex??ife, had she known she was pregnant and left her abusive husband to protect her unborn children, from the brute she had married. Maybe that was the very reason she’d found the courage to leave him in the first place.
Calvin
He parked his car in the hospital car park and headed for the ICU, where he knew Marilyn was currently a patient. There were he’d seen many reporters outside the front of the hospital, likely waiting for him to turn up. So, they could yell questions at him about what they all suspected had happened, like they had just a few hours ago when he’d left the hotel.
He’d opted not to drive his normal car, a black Jaguar XF or his Bently Continental GT in Damson a deep refined purple that could look black in certain lighting, but had chosen his lesser??nown Audi SQ6 e??ron that was blue. Which had seen him go unnoticed by the press, who were all standing around outside the front of the hospital, something he’d seen as he’d driven by, had been checking for even.
He also didn’t have to walk through the lobby of the hospital or head off to information to find out what ward she was in. He had gotten that call from Casey, seeing that he was her benefactor here at the hospital, and so he knew exactly where she was.
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