Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
She admitted.
“Actively engaging the children for him.”
Liam looked a bit surprised.
“Mm, I’m not heartless, I was… just scared Liam. Though I do have a question for you,”
“Go ahead.”
She pulled two photos from her purse, both of her at the Cliffside manor.
“Do you know where these were taken or could you find out?”
Liam picked them up and looked at them, then looked at her a bit surprised.
“You remember who you are?”
“No… well not really, I have one memory of being Marrin. My final moment with Calvin at the airport, seeing it on video, triggered the memory. It’s the only one I have, but I have moments now where I zone out and do… I don’t know, Marrin things, I guess. I managed to access her cloud and there are a lot of photos of my younger self. That I believe is the house I lived in, as Marrin Reeves.”
“It is.”
Liam nodded.
“And yes, I know where it is.”
“I’d like to know. If you could send me the details, the boys want to know where it is. Take me there and see if it’ll jog my memory.”
She chuckled.
“I think they think if I get my memories back they’ll get the happy family they want, their parents under the same room. I admit I’m curious, I just don’t want Calvin to know about any of this until I’m good and ready to tell him.
“Until I can see that he is not a terrible person, but my neurosurgeon also said things from my past could help bring my memories back, people or, I guess, that house could do it. I, however, don’t want Calvin to be a part of the process at this point.
“I understand what he is, but my one memory actually conflicts with what I saw on that USB drive, so I’m confused and need to figure it out on my own. Marrin believed Calvin had another woman, she really believed it the day she was leaving. I don’t understand that, from all I saw, but her pain was real.”
Liam sighed now and nodded.
“Alright, I’ve got the details of this house back in your file at the office. I’ll email it to you when I get back to New York.”
7
Calvin
He left the hotel with Wil to go and buy a phone, where he just sat in the passenger seat and stared out the window. Everything he’d done had only further ruined his chances of getting closer to Marilyn and their boys.
She’d not seen it as him trying to show her his generous side at all. She only saw it as him looking for a way to snatch up their boys from her, and take them for himself, likely also thought that would see her come to him, which in all likelihood it would have, though with the police following her.
That had not been his intent or his purpose at all.
He was, still it seemed, ruining everything. She’d stated out right, she’d just up and leave once more, just vanish away and take the boys with her as well. He didn’t want that at all, he wanted for her to get to know him and him to get to know her, Marilyn, a woman that had once been but was no longer Marrin.
Though some part of Marilyn had to have been inside Marrin, for her to change her name to that, Marilyn obviously was the writer side of Marrin, and she’d been doing that before they were divorced, so technically Marilyn was Marrin in some way. He just didn’t know that side of her.
“You’d better not be plotting and planning over there, Calvin.”
Wil’s voice interrupted his thoughts.
“I’m not.”
He answered simply.
“I can’t do anything right where she is concerned.”
He finally admitted to himself that he likely knew very little about his wife other than how to please her in the bedroom. And it hurt is wife him to say those words out loud.
“Baby steps, Calvin. That is what you need to do, take baby steps, not giant leaps to breach an unknown depth. Tentative baby steps to test the waters is all.”
“She could and will just up and leave like Marrin did,”
he muttered.
“Yes,”
Wil admitted.
“She is Marrin way down deep in the depths of Marilyn, so that is kind of to be expected that they will react the same, huh!”
“I guess so.”
Calvin sighed.
“Because you went about this all the wrong way, just like you did back then. When you believed, she’d understand your intent. When she couldn’t possibly do that because you never told her what it was you actually wanted from her. That is where you’re going wrong.”
“She’ll never believe me now, Wil. I’ll be lucky if she’ll let me ever have the boys, even for a day.”
Calvin muttered. Knew it to be true because if he was her, he wouldn’t.
“Brought that one on yourself though, now didn’t you? I told you I was working on it and all you had to do was wait.”
Wil shook his head.
“I didn’t want to wait. Eight bloody years of waiting.”
Calvin huffed.
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