Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
Casey trailed off.
“Though,”
Calvin prompted, when there was silence for 10 or 15 seconds.
That is not something I am at liberty to say. You’d have to talk to her next of kin, and that is Lisa Stevens. I heard Marilyn has got no actual family, just the two children.”
“Has the children’s father been contacted?”
he asked,
“I’ll fly him in to help look after the children.”
“Again, that is something you’d have to talk to Lisa about. I have no idea, but I’ve not heard mention of the children’s father, so there might not even be one.”
“What?”
Calvin asked, confused now.
“He could be deceased himself, from that accident she was in, or it could just be one of many other reasons that he’s not in the picture. Not everyone gets married because they’re having a baby nowadays, Calvin, and not all will take responsibility either.”
“Right!”
he’d nodded and ended the call.
He stood out on his balcony after researching what a moderate closed brain injury was; it just meant not penetrating wound to the brain itself. He was leaning on the railing looking at the view of the city absently.
His one stupid action, because he was so obsessed with her being Marrin, could well have ruined this woman’s life, and not just her livelihood but her ability to raise her own children as well. He didn’t even know how old they were, or if they were boys or girls.”
If the worst??ase scenario happened, there wasn’t going to be any mediation, and he was going to be held llable for not only her career earnings for the rest of her life, and who knew how old a writer was when they retired. He tried to find that out and couldn’t. There was no definitive age.
But when he googled it, it looked like most wrote well in to their 80s. The oldest one was reported to be 102. This woman was only in her 30’s and just getting really started. There was no actual retirement plan for authors. It solely depended on what each individual wanted and what their creativity was, how well they sold. So many varying factors it was undeterminable.
That was a lot of money and if her writing was just taking off they could say she’d be expected to earn more In the future as well. He had no idea how to even start the calculation of what it would cost him to keep her to the lifestyle she was accustomed to or expected earnings, but he could well imagine it was going to run
Into the millions.
Then there were all her medical bills, and not just from this incident, but all the following bills that would come from it. What if she never fully recovered? He’d be liable for everything up until she died. Have to account for carers and the children in that as well, because if her motor skills declined to the point she couldn’t look after her children, she’d have to have a live-in carer and nanny. Someone to cook and clean for her as well. Everything would have to be taken into account.
He had he could now see, royally screwed all of this up, and he had no one to blame but himself. It was all his own doing. Calvin stood up and scrubbed a hand over his face. This could well break him. He could have to give her everything he bloody owned
He turned away from the city view and headed for the hospital. He’d been told not to go there by Wil; he had been warned, he guessed, but how could he not go himself? And physically see how she was doing, when it was all his fault. She wasn’t Marrin, she just looked so much like her, that he’d convinced himself she was
Marin.
Though with all the information he had gotten from the mediation this afternoon, that Marilyn had a Californian birth certificate, and was also an orphan, that had been what had truly convinced him she was actually Marrin, and made him track her and try and see that birthmark for himself.
Maybe she wasn’t Marrin, but was in fact her twin sister, and they had been separated due to being orphans that were in the foster care system. They got passed around from one foster family to another, and somewhere along the line they’d been separated, because they weren’t able to stay in the same foster home due to some sort of constraints.
They could well have been separated as babies and never knew about each other. Could have come across each other at university. Or they could have always known about each other, always remembered that they had a twin out there, but lost contact with each other. Marrin had been smart that much he knew, so he could only presume that this woman, Marilyn, if they were in fact twins, would also be smart. So it was entirely possible they’d gotten into the same university.
A New Obsession
Calvin
He was trying to figure it all out inside his mind, how this could have come about, how identical twins could have been separated and come back together in college. Maybe their lives were simply very different. Perhaps one had found a family to adopt her and love her, and the other had just been shunted from one foster home to the other.
Their lives could have been very different, so different that they did not get along, or saw no fit reason to actively be in each other’s lives permanently. They could well know about each other but not consider each other to be family due to one suffering a horrible life and the other not for all he knew. So they had no connection with each other anymore and, therefore, they just didn’t consider either to be their next of kin
Maybe they’d accidently met at college and figured it all out themselves, but they’d had different names, different lives and that was why Marrin never told him about Marilyn. That bothered him though, and quite a bit, they’d been married for three years, and Marrin had never once mentioned anything at all about this Marilyn Riddley; or not until after they’d signed those divorce papers.
Just that one time only as well, and he’d not thought anything of it himself, why would he there was nothing suspicious on the night that she had brought her up.
He couldn’t even really put it down to their divorce, and them going their separate ways, because Marrin had mentioned that woman’s name and how she’d known her, solely because it had to do with the gift she’d given to Anabell. So likely she’d have mentioned it even if they weren’t getting a divorce. She’d not even really tried. to hide it that day, had told everyone in that room without concern for it that she knew her from college, he’d been right there to hear that himself.
Marrin and Marilyn did actually know each other, he realised, but because of their marriage contract, she’d simply not see fit to tell him about her was all. He could only think it was because, in all likelihood, she’d always known there was a divorce pending, so she didn’t ever want to involve him in her sister’s life.
That was all he could think, or her knowing there was a divorce coming, she’d not mentioned the contract marriage to her sister. Maybe she didn’t want to for fear of her sister judging her, and there was, of course, that she wasn’t actually allowed to tell anyone it was a contract marriage.
He could only think of Marilyn as being Marrin’s identical twin sister, though why would Marilyn then deny knowing Marrin at all? if that was the case, and that was the really weird thing that didn’t make any sense to him at all.
He shook it off and had to let it go, because he had no actual proof that she was Marrin; so he had to accept that she was not Marrin as hard as it was to do he had to accept this now. The woman he’d Injured was Marilyn Riddley, from the state of Virginia, an author of fictional romance. Not Marrin Huxley of California as she’d grown up, or Marrin Reeves from Texas, a computer programmer. They were clearly two very different people, even their jobs were so far apart from each other, one was all logic and numbers and the other was all Imagination and fantasy..
Looking at the two women like that, where one was all right??ide brain and the other was all left side brain, It was hard to consider them the same person now, that he was thinking clearly about Marilyn, and her not beng Marrin:
A New Obsession
But he couldn’t not think they weren’t related. There was too much circumstantial evidence that pointed to them being related; sisters, twin sisters, in fact. With all of this in his mind, as he drove to the hospital, he realised something else about Marilyn. If she was Marrin’s sister, which he was now 90% convinced of
Then Marilyn Riddley had to be considered as his own next of kin, because he had married her sister, so they were technically extended family to each other. He would have been, at one point, her brother??n??aw, could still on a technicality, be considered that even.
Because he had loved Marrin, had just stupidly divorced her, to enact his own plan to see them come together properly, to have a real marriage and a family, something he’d wanted with her and screwed up royally because he’d not listened to Wil, who’d told him a million times it wasn’t the right way to do things.
But Calvin had been determined to surprise her and prove his love for her. He had wanted to make that grand gesture, so she wouldn’t misunderstand him. Only to have it all backfire just like Wil had been concerned about.
Calvin had caused all the mess that he now found himself in, and he had to try and find a way to fix it.
Maybe, just maybe, if he could get Marilyn to accept his offer of an apology and an offer of an olive branch of help, it might actually bring Marrin back into his circle.
Where he could get her to sit down and allow him to explain everything to her, the divorce and why he’d done that. Tell her his plan about them having a real marriage, and starting a family. How he’d planned on confessing his love to her, and proposing to her, when she got off that plane in Italy.
Something he could prove he had been going to do. It was all planned out. He’d been right there in the airport that fateful day the plane had crashed. Everything had been planned meticulously by him. Her one??ay ticket even. That was because he’d been going to bring her back on his jet and so there was no need for a return ticket.
Surely, Marilyn would know where her sister was and could bring her here to him. Though that thought made him frown, if they did know each other, then why hadn’t Marrin turned up already with the news of him assaulting her sister? It was out there all over the internet for all to see, surely Marrin would see it. Was she no longer in the country? Or had Marrin simply left her twin sister behind as much as she had done him?
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.