Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
She saw Calvin look over her, and hold a cup out to her. “I made you coffee,” he stated as he came to a halt. “Did you, you don’t even know how I like to have my coffee.” She kind of muttered, and looked right at him as he moved his eyes over her, and then looked at her laptop and frowned.
“I asked the boys. You take it with milk and one sugar,” he stated, and her eyes moved to the boys zooming about on those scooters.
She wondered just how much information those boys of hers were giving to Cavlin. She reached out and took the cup. “Thanks.” She stated and turned her eyes back to her laptop.
“Are you writing?” he asked.
“Yes.” She answered “Though I just recalled this is exactly where you had Wil give me the divorce papers. Seeing you walk across the law, triggered that.” she sighed a little to herself. “Kind of ruined this place for me,
“she muttered.
“I’m sorry about that. I didn’t know you were writing out here that day. Just presumed you were working remotely was all. You never did tell me you’d started a writing career. Didn’t tell anyone to my knowledge,” he answered her.
“I did not.” She answered honestly, it was and is something solely for me. I write for myself no one else.” She sipped the coffee and had to admit it was good.
“Marilyn, my divorcing you. It was so we could have a real marriage. I wasn’t trying to leave you. Just…” he sighed. “Wanted things between us to change.”
“You must have gone about it the wrong way for Marrin to leave you for real then, huh?” she shrugged. “Yes, I thought I was making a grand gesture to show her I was in love with her, only…” he trailed off.
“It didn’t work out.” She nodded. “Now life has moved on for everyone.”
“It has, and I think we both suffered from my decisions. I lost Marrin and the family I wanted with her, and you lost everything, literally.” He sighed. “I’m sorry about that, the way I did things.”
She looked up at him, and bit the bullet, “You know, I recall something about you bugs me a lot.”
“That would be?” he asked and hunkered down to look at her.
“Who your other woman was?” she asked directly.
! Marrin, and one thing
“What! There was no other woman. I assure you of that. I was completely faithful to Marrin, loved her by the time we got divorced, it’s why I needed the divorce so I could tell her that.” He was frowning right at her. What memories do you have?” he asked.
“The moment at the airport, but it conflicts with everything I know. Marrin really believed you had another woman, something about…” she thought about it and pushed hard at the edges of her own memories. “She asked you if that other woman knew about the divorce clauses she’d put in and was okay with it… you answered yes she was aware or something like that.”
He was staring at her now, more than shocked by her words. “The other woman was you, so yes you knew of the clauses because you put them in yourself.”
Marilyn frowned right at him now. Perhaps it was those very words that ended everything for her,” she muttered and turned her eyes back to her laptop with a slight shake of her head. “Perhaps, Mr Reeves, you should choose your words carefully with women in the future. Oh, on that note, I’ll be having Wil or Cameron vet any woman you decide to date and want around the twins in the future.”
She watched him open his mouth to say something and then re-think it, decide against it and just nod his head, “Alright, I don’t have an issue with that… What are your plans for New Years?” he asked, changing the subject.
“Same as they always are, let the boys see the fireworks on TV or go and watch the 9pm ones for the kids and then return home. My life is quite… unexceptional all the time. I work, and I raise the boys. That is it. I’m certain you have plans. Just go do whatever it is you would normally do for New Year’s”
“I thought the four of us could spend it together. You wouldn’t know but, there is a good view from my apartment in the city of Houston’s firework show. So, if you’d be willing to come with the boys, they can watch the fireworks in person from there,” Calvin offered,
“Don’t you have something planned?” she asked.
“Mm, but I don’t need to be there, and honestly I’d rather spend it with the boys, yourself included.” “Anabell invited me to her and Wil’s place, and your mother said she could watch the boys. They both told me you had an event to go to. You should just go do that, or take the boys to the apartment,” she told him.
He sighed a little and nodded, but then stated “What about a compromise? You and the boys all come to the apartment, and they can watch the fireworks from there. Then you can head for Wil and Anabell’s, and I’ll attend one of the six invites I got for New Years.”
“Still popular I see.” she nodded. He’d always had half a dozen invites, usually from people that wanted him to donate or invest in something. New Year’s Eve was just like an informal, but really fancy business meeting for him.
“Hmm kind of comes with who I am and what people want from me. Can’t really be avoided.” He shrugged. I’d host myself but… that would be a nightmare to plan and then…” he shook his head. “Who to invite? I don’t need the headache, so just attend something I’m invited to… What do you say to my compromise?
“Mother and father can come to my apartment to watch the boys. It’s a shorter trip for them, and they’ll also and Anabell’s place is not get to see the fireworks. That way, everyone will get to do something nice, and that far from my apartment. I can have a driver take you there so you don’t need to try and catch a cab, which will take forever.”
She thought about it and nodded. “I guess if that works for the boys and your mother, I could see to doing that.”
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.