Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“I doubt that very much.”
“Why?”
Wil asked right back.
“I hated sport and Marrin was a computer nerd as much as I was. Neither of us were into sport,”
Calvin smiled at him.
“That doesn’t mean anything. They could well grow up to be jocks, love football or basketball, ice hockey for all you know.”
He smiled at his friend, knowing that would annoy him.
“Don’t you bloody swear at me, Wil.”
Calvin muttered as the plane raced down the runway to take off.
“Brains before Brawn.”
Wil laughed now,
“You know Calvin, those two boys didn’t grow up within a household with two brainiacs for the parents, not even one. But with an author that is creative and expressive, and probably likes adventuring out into the outdoors…”
he couldn’t help but annoy the man
“Hiking, biking, camping, all things that will get creative juices flowing, you could well find they are athletes not brainiacs.
“Keep swearing at me, and I’ll start praying your kids will be just like me.”
Calvin smirked at him now.
“Ah, you’re not so bad, quite funny and charming when you’re in a good mood, and you as a child and teen, quiet, locked away in your room or the computer labs, no outlay for a kid like you, and as a grown up before well you know… You hardly ever got mad about anything, didn’t care about anything but your company, and then when married to Marrin you smiled and laughed and became way more sociable. A kid like that, easy any
“Yeah right.”
Calvin shook his head and rolled his eyes.
“Do you know how of those jocks at school weren’t nice to me?”
“Yes, and I also know just how many of them see you now and regret that fact.”
Wil laughed softly. It was true when he’d made his first million those that hadn’t been nice in school had tried to become close to him. Calvin wasn’t interested though. And when he’d made a billion, they were all trying to play the come on, we went to high school together card ‘we’re buddies’.
To which Calvin had stared at them and stated
“Really buddies? Didn’t you push me around and trip me over more than once.”
Stated something that reminded them they weren’t buddies. Some of them he’d just told in no uncertain terms to
“f**k off you’re a bully.”
And had walked away from them. He knew who was his friend and who wasn’t, who was out to get his money only even back then.
Marrin had been an investment for Calvin in the beginning, because people said he wasn’t personable, and the man wasn’t, though having Marrin on his arm had changed that, and even though Wil knew Calvin had never seen himself ever falling in love and having a family, he’d liked Marrin she was actually quite a bit like Calvin, and suffered growing up. Things they’d learned about each other in that three weeks prior to their marriage. herbo
Wil had always hoped that Calvin wouldn’t let her go, would see her the way everyone around him did and fall for the woman. She’d been Calvin’s choice, though they’d both been looking for a woman to fit the bill of his wife for nearly a year before Marrin came along. Dealing with her while sorting out the terms of her company’s take??ver had seen Calvin find her to be a pretty like??inded woman and that had been the clincher for him.
She’d been good for Calvin in more ways than one and getting her back now was the problem, but Wil thought he was on the right track. The plane landed and as they walked from the jet to the car, Wil got an email update of the confirmation of Marilyn signing that contact, and he relayed this to Calvin.
“Excellent.”
Calvin smiled at him.
“Yes, now you just have to contain yourself and behave for two and a half months. It’s not that long,”
Wil stated.
“I also didn’t see her get dizzy even once today. Maybe things are improving on her end as well.”
“That would be nice,”
Calvin nodded. ‘If she can recover completely, likely there’ll be less annoyance from her.
“
Wil didn’t know about that, but he had noticed something else during the course of that meeting. She’d not once called him William, and had the entire time referred to him as Wil when addressing him. Which was something that Marrin had done.
He wondered now, as he thought about that, if she had regained some of her memories and, if so, which ones, and just what had triggered them? He’d not gotten an answer from Liam about whether Marilyn had watched what was on the USB. He couldn’t due to Calvin sitting right there at the table and still knew nothing about him, having given her the video footage of Calvin searching for Marrin.
Not even that last moment they shared at the airport, Wil had left all of that out when he’d given him the file on Marrin being Marilyn. It was not something Calvin wanted anyone to recall, not even himself, and Calvin had thought he’d gotten rid of it all.
Wil was now thankful that he’d kept a copy of it in secret, just in case what he believed about Marrin came to light. Knowing she might need to see it to recover. Now it had been needed. He sent Liam an email to have him thank Marilyn for signing the contract already and then added, ‘Do you know if Marilyn has looked at what’s on the USB?’ Though he wasn’t expecting a reply right away, knowing that Liam was likely on flight himself, unlike he and Calvin, that man had to wait for a domestic flight.
“Everything alright?”
Calvin asked him as they got in the waiting car and Lou put their luggage in the boot.
“Yes. I just asked Liam to thank Marilyn for signing without wanting to make changes is all.”
Wil nodded. “
You seem to be doing alright with all of this?”
“Mm. I think I actually am. Speaking with her myself, hearing Marilyn tell me in her own words how she feels. I probably really did need to hear that from her lips to my ears,”
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