Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
He headed up the stairs and the place was quiet, checked all the rooms and stood before their bedroom, took a breath in and then opened the door, walked about in there and could swear he could smell her in here.
He looked out the window and stopped dead at the sight of her out there by the pool. She remembered and had come home. His heart hammered inside his chest as he made his way downstairs, and through the house, and out the back, she was standing by the pool watching the twins play on the grass.
His hands landed on her, and he turned her around, “Marrin?” he gasped, and she looked up at him, eyes wide, and then she just shoved him with all she had, and he let go and staggered backwards, and fell right into the pool.
Marilyn
The boys yelled at her that Calvin was here, waving the phone at her. She’d already unpacked the car and put it in the garage so that Calvin wouldn’t know they were here, and gone and placed that gift for him on the hallway table. She knew he never parked his car in the garage, not unless he was planning to spend the night, and she knew he wasn’t likely going to be thinking that.
He came here to collect that phone before going to Virginia. She’d already gotten a text from Wil, that they’d landed and Calvin was headed right there. She didn’t go to greet him, just let him do what he would naturally do, and she knew he’d open that gift looking for the phone, and eventually it would click that they were here, and he’d hunt them down.
She’d told the boys not to go to him, to see if he could figure out that they were here, to just play in the yard as normal. They’d stared up at her, “What if he doesn’t figure it out.”
“Then he’s dumb.” She’d snorted, and both boys had hit her..
“Mum.” They’d whined at her.
She’d chuckled and hunkered down. “Now boys, do you really think he made all that money without having a brain in his head? He’s not what I would call dumb. If he doesn’t hunt and leaves, I’ll let you text him from the phone. How’s that for a deal?”
They’d smiled and run off to play as she’d told them too. She had a feeling he’d go through the album before he hunted for the phone, in that package and realise it wasn’t there. So they had time. She also had a feeling he was going to think she had all her memories back as well. She stepped outside and positioned herself to be seen from the master bedroom or any of the windows, really from the top floor.
Let the payback begin, she thought to herself as she stood watching the boys. They had their bikes out and were riding on the paths in the garden, happy to know they were here at one of their dad’s homes and that he himself was here.
It took 25 minutes before she heard his hurried footsteps and felt his hands land on her, one on each shoulder, and then the name Marrin came out of him as he turned her around. He was standing exactly where she wanted him to be, with the expression of hope on his face. And she snapped both her hands out and into his chest and shoved him with everything she had. Not only did he let go, but he stumbled backwards and down he went, into the freezing cold water of the pool.
She heard him gasp and the expression on his face was damned near priceless. She watched him surface. and rapped out “I’m not Marrin, get that through your head.” and then she actually had to turn away from him and his expression, and try really hard not to laugh as she walked off. He looked like a very shocked, drowned rat in that pool.
She’d already tested the water, it was cold, and he was fully clothed, and he was wearing a suit, not just everyday clothes. He’d ruined her favourite black and white skirt outfit; now she’d ruined one of his suits in return.
She heard him get out of the pool, he had to swim over to the stairs and climb out. She even heard him peel, his jacket off. “Boy’s.” she hollered before he could say anything to her at all. “Your father is here.” she looked right at him finally, and it was still too funny to her. A snort of amusement came from her as she looked at: him. She couldn’t stop it if she tried. She’d never seen him look like that before. A deep frown touched his face as he stood staring at her.
He used a hand to push his now wet and messy hair back, and she turned away from him, as it shot an Image of him doing th
I as he got out of the shower in their master bedroom into her mind. “I’m sorry, Calvin muttered. “Got, confused for a moment.”
“Don’t do it again,” she stated as the boys finally arrived. They both came to a halt at the sight of their dad wet. fully drenched and dripping”
“You shouldn’t swim fully clothed,” Callum stated.
“I didn’t,” Calvin muttered, and she turned and saw him look at her, and she smiled all sweetly at him and raised an eyebrow. “I tripped and fell in the pool.” He stated, “I guess boys, I should have been more careful.”
They laughed. “Not even we fell in the pool,” Vincent pointed at him.
“Hmm, I’ll go and get changed and come back,” he stated, but before he walked away, he smiled at them and hunkered down. “It’s good to see you here, this was your mother’s house. Have you been shown around?”
“Mum’s house? Didn’t you live here too?” Callum asked right back.
That was something she’d not spoken of, because how did one tell them they were an accident born only from a loveless contract marriage? Calvin could explain that one to them. She wasn’t even going to try. She also knew Marrin had loved him, so it could well have just been loveless at his end.
She was still confused about that man and his true intentions for Marrin. She’d felt the pain and hurt of leaving him, but also seen his desperate search for Marrin at the same time, seen the flowers and what she’d thought was an engagement ring box as well. There were just still missing pieces to the puzzle to be filled in for her.
His eyes moved to her, and she shrugged “Don’t look at me for that answer, I don’t know. I just recalled the house is all, and where it was.”
“I’ll go and change before answering some questions.” He stood up, and looked down at himself, sighed a little and then looked at her for a moment. She stared right back at him and said nothing, she wasn’t going to apologize for it.
She watched him walk off, and both boys looked at her, and she waved them off, knowing they wanted to go with him. She didn’t mind, they’d badger him about the house and why she and he didn’t live together. They’d asked her half a dozen times on the trip out here. They were very curious about all her photos here of her alone and none with their father.
“Mum recalled it after we saw you in the hotel,” Callum told him as he ran over to catch up with Calvin.
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.
I hate these dumb women in these novels. Why would a man be waiting at an airport with an engagement ring if he did not love you ? Will already explained what happened. Why is she still stressing about a clearly non existent “other woman.”