Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“The, Mr Reeves?” he asked with a chuckle.
Marilyn chuckled right back. “Now that was amusing for me, to see the way his eyes shot to me, he didn’t like that at all.”
“No he did not,” Wil admitted. “That’s because he wants to be on first-name terms with you.”
“It’s not going to happen Wil.” She smiled at him..
“So when are you going to use those keys?” he asked.
“Shortly.” She told him, “Don’t concern yourself with it, Wil, and please tell Kay, I’ll, of course, let her and the family be a part of the twins’ lives.” She stated as the boys came running across the room with Calvin trailing them at a more sedate pace.
“I’ll discuss that with Kay herself and sort out a time she and her husband can meet their grandchildren, Wil.” Marilyn smiled at him as Calvin sat down.
Calvin’s eyes moved from him to Marilyn as she went on. “I may have no memories of them, but I’m not so cruel that I would deny grandparents seeing their grandchildren.”
“Alright, I will let Kay know.” Wil nodded. “She’ll be happy to hear that.”
“Boys,” Marilyn stated, “It’s time to go, please say goodbye to your father.”
He watched them pout and Marilyn shake her head at them. “This was just a meet him is all. You knew that. You’ll get to see your father for Christmas lunch and maybe, Christmas Eve for dinner.” She told them, “Wil is very convincing.”
Wil smiled, he’d not brought up Christmas Eve. That was all her own doing. She likely didn’t want to deny the boys or Calvin seeing each other on the holidays. He looked at the boys. “You two can call me Uncle Wil, seeing as you already call my wife Aunty Anabell.” He leaned forward and smiled right at them. “I also want you two to be able to spend time with your dad, so I will help with that where necessary. You two may ask me anything, can text me too,” he told them, and they nodded at him.
He stood along with Calvin, and they walked Marilyn and the twins out to her car, and he realised there was no driver as she got her keys out. “Are you allowed to drive, Marilyn?” he asked.
“Yes, since Wednesday.” She nodded. “Say hello to Anabell for me.”
“Marilyn, I’d like to thank you for bringing the boys here today. I did not expect that, it was truly a lovely surprise,” Calvin stated.
She looked at him, “Mr Reeves, this here today is a show of good faith, that I am willing to allow you to be a part of the boys’ lives only. This changes nothing between you and I.” she told him simply but firmly. “But I’m not mean or cruel, and I’m not out to hurt you personally. It’s simply that dads have rights and the boys wanted to meet you today,” she told him.
Wil saw Calvin flinch at the words ‘not out to hurt you personally. It was a full dig at him and how he’d treated her, and it worked. He understood her meaning in full. Her words also showed him she wasn’t about to just let what happened slide because he was the twin’s father.
Strong and stubborn, was this new version of Marrin/Marilyn, was what he’d told Calvin a long time ago. He also once believed that there was a temper under Marrin’s sweet, gentle nature and this woman now before them was likely the real Marrin, Marrin Huxley, who had not just risen up to be seen, but was now here to stay, and she was going to show Calvin that his behaviour was unacceptable.
Calvin
He’d gotten that all-important dad moment out at the car. When seeing off, he’d hunkered down to their level and smiled at them, touched both their faces, and they’d just hugged him without him even having to ask. Both of them at the same time.
He’d not known if he would get that today; a hug from his boys. But there it was, and they hugged him as tightly as he hugged them. “I love you both.” He murmured softly and leaned back from them a little to look at them. “I never meant for this to happen. For all of us to be apart.” He sighed softly. “I’ll find a way to fix it,” he told them gently.
“To be a real family?” Callum half whispered, and he heard the hope in his son’s voice.
“Yes,” Calvin nodded. “I would really like that,” he told them. Wil and Marilyn were on the other side of the car chatting about Anabell he could here.
“I might need both your boys’ help with your mum. Just little things that she likes so I can try and find a way to reconnect with her.” he sighed a little even as they nodded slowly at him, “I was the one that screwed this up, and not just now, but before you were born as well, not her. So, it is me that needs to fix things.” He told. them and stood up and opened the car door for them to get in. He watched as they both climbed up and in and fastened their seatbelts. He smiled at them, and they him “I’ll see both in a few days.” He stated as he closed the door to their ‘okay’.
He had two very bouncy, happy boys, and they’d called him dad already. He liked that. They’d gotten into the car and wound the window down, and called out, “Dad, what do you call a fake noodle?”
He shook his head. “I don’t know boys.” He answered with a smile.
“An impasta.” That laughed, and waved goodbye to him as Marilyn drove them away.
“They like jokes a lot.” He heard Wil chuckle.
Calvin could only nod, even as he felt pain touch his chest, everything he wanted was in that car, and he didn’t know if he was going to be able to have it all. That loving, happy family life that he’d wanted. He’d screwed it all up and all he could see right at this moment in time was they would be split family, where the boys would have to go between their mother and himself.
Though even as he stood there watching that car disappear out of sight, he thought that the twins might just help him. He’d heard the hope in Callum’s voice when he’d stated ‘to be a real family’. It was likely that his boys also wanted that as well. For all of them to live as a family under the one roof.
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