Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
She admitted
“This was it. A long way from anywhere and it’s perfect, it’s got mountains and a lake. Everything I need and room for Lisa when she comes to do the editing. Got rooms for not only a live??n driver and housekeeper, but security men as well. All the things I thought I was going to need,”
She admitted.
“How big is this place?”
Anabell asked, sounding curious.
“It’s got nine bedrooms, three guest houses,”
she stated simply.
“Do you still think you need all of that, Marilyn?”
Anabell asked as she leaned on that fence and really took in the house.
“You know it kind of looks like Cliffside… Somewhere deep down inside of you, Marrin still existed when you purchased this place. You also bought something similar to what Calvin bought for you.”
she chuckled a little.
Marilyn looked at the house. She’d not really thought about that thing until now, looking at this place and comparing it to what she knew Cliffside to look like. Anabell was not wrong; both homes had hexagonal style rooms at the front which gave the roof a similar design. They both had lovely manicured lawns and a water view, though here was a lake and there was the ocean, it was all open and expansive.
The two homes were both grand as well, she thought,
“I bought a bigger house than Cliffside and for half the price.”
She chuckled softly as she pushed off the railing.
“Come on lets go and look around inside the house, which I think I got the better deal on.”
she chuckled herself now.
They walked about the empty house looking at the rooms, and the boys were excited about it having an elevator to go up to the top floor, and a fully built??ut basement, which had a sign on the door Games Room. They were running about in there, they liked how much room there was, talking about all the things that they were going to want to go in here.
“You know Marilyn, if they say stuff like that around Calvin, he’s likely to buy them everything they talk about, they’ll want for nothing.”
She smiled.
“He’s going to spoll them rotten, I imagine.”
his is my
“If Net him come here,”
Marilyn smiled right back at her as they headed back up to the main flo home, not his.”
She stated
“A place that is quiet and away from the hustle and bustle. A place where I can just sit at my desk and write, or stroll about in the woods off the back of the house. Sit and have coffee and look at the lake view. My retreat is what this place will be.”
“You’ll get lonely all by yourself,”
Anabell commented as they headed up to the first floor to the bedrooms.
“Not really,”
she shook her head.
“I was always on my own, even as a child I was separated and singled out. It’s why I turned to computers and learned programming. I didn’t need anyone else for that, and it kind of came easy to me. An added bonus.
“Writing is much the same. I sit on my own in the quiet and work by myself. I don’t really get lonely, I have got all my characters inside my mind all the time,”
she shrugged.
“I also learned as an adult that loneliness and being alone are two different things. I was a lonely child that craved love and family.
“But as an adult at university, I made friends and learned that it was okay to still be alone, that being alone didn’t mean I was lonely. Because I had people I could call and talk to, hang out with and study alongside, we created that company and, though Loften sat and worked alone, I wasn’t lonely. Was content in my life by then.”
She smiled as they walked about looking at the bedrooms.
“I actually don’t mind being on my own, never really did, I guess. Not even having no memory did it bother me. I kind of just accepted it and moved on like I was always supposed to be alone… Now I understand that, it was actually safer for me sometimes as a child in a new and unpredictable foster home environment. Out of sight sometimes meant out of the line of fire.”
She heard Anabell sigh heavily.
“Not a nice thing though. For anyone to grow up like that.”
“Mm, I dare say many more out there had it worse than I did.”
Marilyn nodded.
“I also dealt with it a long time ago. Before meeting Calvin. He’d probably not have gotten me to agree to that contract marriage if I’d not dealt with it. I’d likely have just thought it was a way to be controlled by him.
“I didn’t really have family attachments and didn’t really understand them properly. That’s why I thought I could be in that marriage. I wasn’t concerned about what it meant or that I would get attached to him. Liked my friends and enjoyed working with them. I figured it was going to be just like that,”
she shrugged.
It was also the truth, as she now knew it, she recalled why she’d gone into that marriage. It was just convenient for her was all. She’d needed a place to live, and that contract had done that for her, and she already worked for Calvin. Nothing there would change for her. She’d agreed to it, expecting absolutely nothing to come from it, and had not been trying to attach herself to Calvin in any way.
She also now knew that Calvin had never once harmed her, pretty much always just gave her what it was she wanted, if she asked for something, it was provided to her without hesitation. He’d been generous with her. Hed also left her alone to her own devices inside that marriage 80% of the time.
He’d not even been concerned when she’d stopped going into the office and had opted to start working from Cliffside. He’d just nodded at her and told her if she could work remotely with her team, then she was allowed to. But he’d always kept her office for her inside C.R. Technology for when she wanted to come into the head office. Or had to for certain things.
“Mum?”
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