Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
He stopped walking as he stepped into the ICU ward itself and saw two boys standing with their hands pressed against the glass of ICU room number five, likely to be her children, he thought. Hamilton was standing there with them, though he was on the phone talking to someone, but he was watching what was going on inside that room just like the two boys were.
Calvin’s eyes moved to those inside room five, and he could see not only Lisa in there, but Casey himself, and several other doctors or the man’s own first, second or third year resident doctors, he thought. That man always had half a dozen of them around him. This was a teaching hospital.
She was awake, he could see that from here. That was a full relief to him, though why the children weren’t in there? That was a curiosity to him. Hamilton caught sight of him as he looked about casually, while he talked and frowned instantly.
Calvin had been hoping that man wouldn’t see him, before he turned and left the ward. No such luck. He’d also been hoping, as her lawyer, he’d have just gone back to his hotel at the end of the business day. That only Lisa would be here or no one at all, gone off to have dinner so he could talk to Casey in person, as he looked at Marilyn himself.
He watched as Hamilton said something quietly to the two boys and they both nodded to him, but they’d never once taken their eyes off their mother, they were likely itching to be in that room with her. Then Hamilton was striding towards him.
“Out Mr Reeves.”
He stated,
“You’re not allowed to be near my client, or my sister, for that matter. I also seriously doubt that Marilyn wants you anywhere near her children either.”
Calvin nodded and turned to leave. There was no point arguing with the man.
“I only came to see how she was doing, not to cause trouble.”
He answered as he walked out of the ward.
I’m glad to see you have some concern for the woman you harassed and have now put in the hospital.”
Hamilton muttered, though his tone still implied he also didn’t approve of Calvin being there at the ICU. never meant for any of that to happen. It was an accident.”
He told him
“I have already given my statement to the police and admitted it was my fault.”
“Good, because it is your fault, on purpose or not, you caused this. Let me make myself perfectly clear for you to understand, Mr Reeves: I don’t want you anywhere near my slater, my client or my client’s children. Because I believe that any of them could wind up dead, the next time you lose your temper.”
“That is ridiculous,”
Calvin stated right back.
Is It? Let me put it another way then, in a way you can understand… Let’s say your sister was stalked, attacked and then tossed down some stairs, by the man that stalked and attacked her, just the previous day. He was found standing over her body in that stairwell. What would you think about that man?”
Hamilton asked him.
Calvin glared at him because he knew he was right. That was exactly how he would see it; that the man would be a full threat to his sister, and he’d think that man was out to harm her, that he’d have his own lawyers handle it, as this man was as well.
“Go home, Mr Reeves, you are not welcome here, regardless that you’re footing the bill, and that would have happened anyway just in retrospect. I’d have sent you the bill and made you pay for it anyway,”
Hamilton stated, and when Calvin didn’t say anything for several minutes, he added just to make sure Calvin understood where he and his clients stood.
“You will be being served with an AVO and restraining order, which will request that you are to stay at least 500 metres from all of them at all times.”
That did not really surprise him. Wil had mentioned something about it himself.
“Is she alright?”
Calvin asked, and he did actually want to know
“Awake, but I don’t know at this point the severity of her injuries. If you want information, I suggest you have your lawyer Wil call me. He has my card. Everything from now on will go through myself and your lawyer. There will not be any direct contact between you and either of my clients, period.
“Or I’ll add more harassment charges to what’s already coming your way. Please leave and do not come back.
Do not make this any more difficult for yourself or your lawyer, who I think finds you to be more than annoying in disregarding his orders, when I believe he’s just trying to keep you under control and out of more trouble.”
Calvin sighed,
“I’d like to apologise in person to Miss Riddley,”
he told him honestly.
“I don’t really care at this point, what it is that you want Mr Reeves. And my client is not up to seeing anyone right now, has barely regained consciousness, so that is not even on the cards. It could be days or even weeks, from my understanding, before she might be up to anything af all,”
Hamilton stated, and turned and walked back into the ICU ward.
Calvin stood out there and thought about what to do now. He hunted down the director of the hospital to check out that VIP suite that was waiting for her now that she’d woken up. Though how long it would take her to be moved into it, he didn’t know yet. That would be up to Casey and the neurosurgeon, he thought.
Whether she had a neurological deficit or not.
He walked into the room and looked about, nodded at it and looked out the view from the window.
“I’d like to be updated before she’s actually moved into this room. I’m not allowed near her at this point in time,”
Calvin stated.
That is to be expected under the circumstances, don’t you think Calvin?”
he was told.
His eyes moved towards the man, his annoyance showing
“Mm, but I also donate a lot of money to this very hospital, he stated right back,
“So some leeway should be granted, yes?”
“I guess so, but that will also depend on her next of kin being in the room if you’re going to insist on actually! being in the same room as her. There is only so much we can do without having her lawyers turned on us.”
Calvin nodded the man was right, though there was that they could deny, knowing he’d come into the room as well. He walked about and looked at the room. There was a large comfortable couch and a large nicely tiled ensuite bathroom, a large sitting area for the family to be comfortable in and, other than the bed and the hospital equipment at the head of the bed, it just looked like a five??tar hotel room.
He left the suite happy with how it looked and the comfort that she and those around her that he needed to appease, would have. And he called his florist to arrange to have flowers delivered to her room when she got there. That was why he wanted the heads??p on her moving into it. He had a feeling if they were delivered after she arrived Lisa would refuse them.
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