Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
He really did need to find a way to break the ice with Marilyn herself. But he had no idea how to go about doing that, if he was totally honest with himself. She had all the facts about them laid out for her. She knew everything on paper, but that didn’t override the only memories she had of him, how he’d been towards her.
Wil was likely going to be right. He may never be able to win her over and bring them back together.
Calvin tried to interact with her and she kind of just stared at him, and then answered him with monosyllables for the most part. Yet if Wil asked her anything she answered in full sentences, which showed him just how little progress he’d made with her and he now knew he thought exactly where he stood with her as well.
“Marilyn.”
He addressed her after the boys settled down completely and were just sitting playing games on their tablets.
“May we discuss the upcoming holiday?”
he asked.
“I don’t want you at my house, Mr Reeves.”
She answered straightforwardly.
He had to hold onto the heavy sigh that was trying to escape him, and he’d actually been prepared for her to say ‘no’ as well. No one in his family and not even Wil thought that Marilyn was going to want him encroaching on such a big holiday. But he had to address it because he was the boy’s father, and he did want to see them on that day.
“I would like to discuss it. Perhaps I could stay here in this hotel, and you could see your way to bringing the boys here to me for a little while./So they and I can spend some time together. If you’re not comfortable with me coming to your home?”
he offered up a compromise instead. He did understand why it was a no after all he’d done.
He watched as her eyes moved towards the twins. They’d gone quiet, he now realised and were looking at their mother, with what he thought were hopeful eyes, and he understood it was something that they also wanted. That warmed his heart.
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“I guess that could be arranged. I’ll, however, want a signed agreement that if I drop them off to you here for a few hours, that you won’t just put them on your plane and take them away from me,”
Marilyn stated.
He blinked at her words and asked,
“Drop them off?”
with a frown.
“I was thinking you’d stay with them the entire time as well.”
She leaned back in her chair and stared right at him, and he got D?j? vu. As he saw Marrin in that tiny office with her girls when he’d been there to buy them out, and they’d been discussing numbers, numbers she’d been unhappy with, he had to stop and shake it off, and not think like that. She was not Marrin, even if she did have some of those mannerisms shining through.
“What makes you think, Mr Reeves, that I would want to spend Christmas Day in your company? I understand you wish to see the twins, and I know that is also what they want as well. But I have no inclination to get to know you on a deeper, more personal level. Nothing about you or what I know of you, appeals to me,”
she stated and sipped her coffee.
His frown deepened with those very words, as he didn’t know how to take them, although he understood it was ? full dig at him, but was it aimed at what he’d done to her, what she knew about him and that contract marriage or his looks even. He knew most women found him attractive and she too had done so once herself. He let that one go and put it down to how he’d treated her.
“I’m sorry, Marilyn, for all that has transpired between us, and I do understand it was completely my fault. But I think it would be best if the day was spent with all of us together.”
“Why?”
she asked.
“Why?”
he frowned and then did sigh
“Because, as you stated, you don’t know me and I could put the boys on my plane and take them home with me. I don’t want you to be concerned about that happening. So the easiest way to do that is for all of us, you and I and the twins, for us all to be together on the day.”
He put to her in the hope she’d see her way to also joining them and not just dropping them off.
“I can have Cameron or Heath stay with the boys,”
she stated with a shrug.
“You may not see them right now, but do you honestly think they’re not here somewhere? That I would be this relaxed around you if they weren’t here, and I didn’t have insurance, I wouldn’t come to harm.”
“Mum!”
both their boys hissed at her.
“It’s fine boys.”
He stated before she could say anything.
“Your mother may have whatever security detail she likes around her, if she feels the need to have one. I don’t take offense to it,”
though he’d not seen either of her bodyguards.
But he could suppose that if they were nearby it could account for why she had just walked into this restaurant without issue. He’d also not been expecting her to come without them, and had been surprised not to see them.
“What would be appropriate in your eyes, Marilyn?”
he asked instead.
“I can only imagine you will have breakfast and do gift opening in the morning when the boys get up.”
“Yes,”
she nodded,
“you could have them from, say… 12 to 3. I’ll have them back for dinner, Wil and I can work something out formally over the next few days.”
He was more than willing to sit and talk it over with her now, sort it out right this very minute, but it seemed she only really wanted to deal with Wil. There was not going to be any room for negotiations at all between her and him spending the day with the boys together at this time. He may never get that family Christmas moment with her and the boys.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.
Why do we have to wait
A emotioal roller coaster. Both character behaved in the way they feel right. Both had their reasons and ignorance. For one outside the circle, it get me thinking. Was it circumstancial, could ot have prevented, if so Rin would be dead now. Was it wrong of Kalvin to show his love in a grand way?