Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
She held out her phone and showed Marilyn a picture she’d found of the woman.
“She’s also deceased from what I can tell. She died years ago. She was married to some billionaire out here, Calvin Reeves, owner of C.R. Technology. No wonder everyone is staring at you.”
Marilyn was reading an obituary notice for Marrin Reeves. She’d died a long time ago in a plane crash devastating her husband. They’d only been married three years but were always seen to be a loving, doting couple in public.
She was staring at the woman’s picture. She was much younger than Marilyn was, and there was a striking resemblance she had to admit. It read she was a computer programmer that had worked for her husband’s company, which was how they’d met.
She shook her head.
“Well, I’m not that smart.”
She chuckled softly and handed it back.
“I guess we’re eating in we don’t need to be upsetting anyone with me looking like her and all.”
Porty
“You know the biggest thing. I can’t find any pictures of Calvin Reeves online, it seems he likes his privacy,”
Lisa stated,
“though there are a fair few articles on him.”
She nodded.
“Go ahead and read, if you’re that interested. Boys, are you happy sitting there playing your game?”
They both looked up at her.
“You gonna work?”
they asked together.
Marilyn chuckled.
“Yes, that new book’s not going to write itself, you know.”
She chuckled and set herself up at the table in the room to sit and work on the new chapter.
“Well, I can see why his pictures are not up anywhere, that poor bastard has had a bunch of people try and convince him they are his dead wife.”
She frowned at Lisa,
“How on earth can one do that, if she’s dead.”
“No body was ever found, so I guess they think they can pretend to be her if they look enough like her, I suppose,”
Lisa shrugged.
Marilyn leaned back in her chair and thought about that.
“Now there’s a story.”
She laughed and shook her head.
“Though not so nice for him, how many does it say?”
“Mm, five now, over the past eight years, the latest one just a few months ago. Ooh! He’s vicious, each one of them is in jail for identity theft. He goes after them when they try to snag him for themselves.”
Lisa was leaning on the table.
“I don’t think you want to come across him. It sounds like he’d be looking to put you away for life.”
“I’m not interested in attaching myself to some billionaire. I like my cozy life with just the boys.”
She smiled.”
I’m certainly not about to walk up to him and go ‘Hey I’m your dead wife’.”
She shook her head.
“Who does that?”
She almost couldn’t believe there were people out there that would do that to someone.”
that was just plain cruel, playing on someone’s grief and likely loneliness, like that.
Calvin
He was standing in his office looking at his phone and the trending topic that had started that afternoon, when Wil rushed into his office.
“Don’t even think about it.”
He burst out as the door banged shut to Calvin’s office behind him.
“Too late,”
he muttered as he looked at the woman in the pictures. There were several shots of her now and the headline read
“Is Marrin Reeves alive? And back in Houston?”
“Calvin, it’s not her. I’ve already checked. That woman is an author of 10 years now. Her name is Marilyn
Riddley. She hails from Virginia.”
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.