Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“I told you this was not the right way, asked you a hundred times to change your plans, that one way ticket.”
The man muttered
“Made her believe you were kicking her out of the country.”
“I’m not that cruel or mean. She should have known this about me,”
Cal muttered.
“She was in love with you, and you divorced her and sent her away. That’s all she saw.”
the man sighed once. more.
“I found these in your car after you left for your jet.”
He watched the man reach into his pocket and produce her engagement ring and wedding band.
“They were on the car’s passenger seat when I got in.”
Will sighed.
Calvin took them and sighed to himself as he looked down at them. He recalled seeing them on her left hand when he’d picked her up at the house, on her hand, right before he’d gotten out of the car. Her hands had been folded neatly in her lap, it was a simple gold band like the one he still wore even now, and her diamond engagement ring. She’d picked it herself, hadn’t wanted anything flashy, or expensive, had told him not to do that. It was just a contract marriage.
So she’d opted for just something very simple, a pittance in cost to him worth only two thousand dollars. He’d shown her something worth much more than that, that was suited to his wealth and status, and she’d simply shaken her head at him and told him not to bother. It wasn’t real, to save that for his actual wife when he got married for love. He’d given her what she wanted because she’d been right about that.
Now they were both in his hand, she had to have removed them as she’d gotten out of the car and just tossed them on the seat for him to find when he drove away. He’d not asked for them back because he was going to remarry her, though he had purchased a new engagement ring.
Though where that was, who knew, it had been with the flowers he’d been carrying in Italy, likely some person would have picked it up and get to keep it, sell it probably it was worth fifty thousand dollars, and he’d not once thought about it until right this very second. Looking down at her old rings.
Marilyn Riddley
She woke up to the sounds of hospital machines, beeping and a tube down her throat. She nearly panicked at the sensation of it, and then a nurse had been right there, looking down at her as she’d reached for it, a hand on hers to stop her from pulling it out herself.
“It’s alright, it’s a breathing tube, just relax I’ll remove it for you okay.”
She’d nodded slightly and felt the uncomfortableness of that tube, even from that one small movement. She could feel pain starting to spread throughout her entire body as she regained consciousness fully, and her head hurt, quite a bit. She wasn’t exactly sure why she was here in the hospital, or how she’d come to be here, not even how long she’d been here.
She followed the nurse’s instructions to cough really hard, and the tube was removed as she did so. It set off a bit of a coughing fit, and then she looked at her nurse once more.
“What happened?”
she managed to rasp out, sounding a bit croaky, her throat was really dry.
“Do you know who you are?”
she asked.
She thought about it for a moment, and nodded once more,
“Yes, Marilyn Riddley.”
She stated,
“What’s wrong with me?”
she asked.
“You were in a car accident.”
She was told,
“You’ve been here with us for over a week now. I saw you were starting to waking up and have called the doctor. He’s happy you’re awake and on his way to talk to you.”
It didn’t take long for a man in a white coat to turn up and stand at her bedside. He looked at her, her vitals and smiled.
“Well hello there, how are you feeling?”
he asked.
“My head hurts, and so does my chest.”
She told him.
“My legs feel heavy.”
“You sustained some pretty serious injuries, though if your car didn’t have air’ s, you’d likely not be here at all. You’ve got two broken legs, a broken wrist and several broken ribs, a broken collar bone. And your head hurts because you had what is called cerebral ?dema, caused by a traumatic brain injury from your accident which caused swelling in your brain.
“I had to do a procedure called a ventriculostomy, which is where I drilled a hole in your head to drain the excess fluid around your brain to relieve the pressure that was built up there. You might have a headache for a few days still. And we are continuing to monitor that, but the edema has been resolved. That is the good news.”
“Alright.”
She murmured.
“I… I don’t recall the accident.”
She murmured as she racked her brain for something. There was just nothing other than she felt like she’d been going home.
“Do you know who you are?”
“Yes, Marilyn Riddley.”
She nodded.
“Where do you live?”
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