Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
Cal interrupted her thoughts.
“Yes Callum.”
She answered him.
“There’s no pool,”
he stated.
“We don’t have a pool now, what’s the big deal?”
she asked in return.
“I thought we’d get one here,”
he murmured.
“You’ve got a whole lake just minutes away. I bet that there are plenty of places to go swimming down on the lake. She told him simply.
“That cliff house had a pool.”
Vin stated looking up at her, and she knew it did. She’d seen the photos as had they.
“It does.”
Anabell chimed in.
“Your dad still owns that place. Maybe one day he’ll take you there and you can swim in it. If your mother allows it, of course.”
“Mm, it is possible.”
Marilyn nodded as both boys looked at Anabell now.
“Does dad’s house have a pool?”
Callum asked right back.
She smiled at Anabell.
“And now they’re yours,”
she chuckled.
“Boys, why don’t you ask Anabell all those questions you have? She actually knows Calvin Reeves.”
Although she herself could likely answer all their questions now, she opted to still not tell them she recalled Calvin. She didn’t think they’d be able to sit still if they knew she recalled him. She also knew that Calvin still lived in the very same apartment he had when they’d been married, and heard from Anabell that he’d nearly sold Cliffside once.
Then had refused to when an offer had come in, that he’d yelled at Wil himself about selling it something along the lines of ‘Where will Marrin live when she comes back to me?”
He was holding on to the house he’d bought her and considered to be her home. The man, it seemed, was completely crazy, loved her and hated her at the same time. He’d kept everything that was hers out at the house still, is what Anabell had told her. It all just sat there waiting for the day she came home and back to him.
Marilyn
The boys had learned from Anabell that Calvin lived in a penthouse apartment in the city. Not in a house with a swimming pool, and they’d appeared to be disappointed by this news. She’d shaken her head but Anabell had gone on to tell them that there was an indoor swimming pool inside the building, along with a proper gym and a few other things the building featured.
That she thought Calvin lived in what she would call a man’s apartment, it was all tailored to him living there alone. That it wasn’t set up to have a family live there with him. That he’d been living there for fore they had been born. Those words, though, had gained their undivided attention.
“But mum, didn’t you live in a house by the ocean?”
Vin had frowned at her as he seemed to think it through.
“Yes,”
she answered them simply.
“That house you’re talking about is Cliffside, and it’s an hour from the city,”
Anabell told them.
“Calvin lived in the apartment and your mother lived in the house.”
The two boys were back to frowning at her.
“I don’t know.”
She shrugged it off, as though she still didn’t have any memories. She still wasn’t certain as to what to tell them about that contract marriage. She also didn’t want them to be hounding her about meeting him because she recalled who he was.
No, that man had to be held accountable for his actions in Houston, so she was going to hold him to that restraining order, and even then she wasn’t going to tell him she knew that she recalled most of her life with. him. Was going to continue to play at being Marilyn while actually recalling being Marrin, who’d been married to him.
She wanted to see what his intentions were, where she as Marilyn was concerned. Anabell was of the opinion that Calvin was going to try and connect with her. Try to create a relationship with her new persona, and try and get Marilyn to agree to date him. To have what he’d lost all those years ago, once more.
Marilyn was very curious about that. If he actually thought that he could do that, and just how was he going to do it? Considering what he’d done to her; scared and terrified her. Caused harm to come to her. Although she did know he’d not pushed her down the stairs, she’d fallen due to the circumstances of what he’d been doing.
So, technically, though he’d not done that to her on purpose, it was still considered his fault. How did he think he could get around that or have her forgive him? He knew nothing about Marilyn, and she’d learned over the past few weeks from not only her own memories but from Anabell as well.
That Marrin and Marilyn had not only led two very different lives, that in that last year of their marriage, she as Marrin, had never denied Calvin ?nything, something she thought was because she had loved him. A part of her deep down had hoped he was in love with her as well. It was that part of her that craved to have a family of her own.
That contract marriage with him had given her a glimpse into what having a loving, caring family was like. She’d come to see by being around him and his family, his mother and father, his two sisters; at all those family dinners and birthdays. What having a family was supposed to be like.
Calvin had given her that and on some level Marilyn knew that was why Marrin had developed feelings for him. That was how they’d started to grow, spending time with him around his family. Where everyone treated her with respect, and she’d like thern, and they’d liked her, not something she’d ever had before, even he treated her differently, more affectionately around his own family.
Her feelings had gone from that of; he was a nice man, to liking him as a person, and then, in time, she’d just realised she was in love with him, and not just him, but his entire family. It had felt nice to fit in finally, and have that family life she’d craved.
That was the very trap she’d fallen into, the very thing that had seen her wanting a real family for the first time, and then with Calvin himself, even though she knew it wasn’t going to happen. They had a contract marriage, and she shouldn’t want anything from him at all.
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