Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
Calvin muttered.
“Nothing, do absolutely nothing at all… you saw there was no birthmark, understand she’s not Marrin, right?”
“Yes.”
He sighed to himself.
“Then, seeing as she’s dropped all the charges and left, you have no valid reason to be around her. Stop scaring her and making her feel you are a threat to herself and her children. Let them all see that. Things will calm down… but on that note, you stated she had sons. How’d you know that?”
Wil asked.
7 saw them in the ICU,”
Calvin answered him.
“Really, I’ve never laid eyes on them. How old would you say they are?”
“I don’t know, I only saw them as they were looking Into the room where Marilyn was. I didn’t come face to face with them, they were paying attention to their mother. I just noted they were both boys. Why?”
“Curious is all, there is nothing about them anywhere. Though I’m happy they didn’t come face to face with you, and be scared of you as well. They will be able to go home and back to their normal lives, forget all about this in time.”
Calvin sighed; He had nieces and nephews and wouldn’t want them to be upset or stressed out about someone hurting their mother. He was going to have to let it go and he knew it. Though even as he was trying to think about that, he was also internally objecting to it. Not that he had much of a choice with that restraining order in place.
“Go home Calvin, I’ll contact her lawyers after a few days and see that she’s made it home safely, but just try and let it go for now. Maybe one day she’ll feel curious and come back and ask questions herself.”
“I doubt it, but Wil, why does she deny knowing Marrin? Marrin stated they knew each other.”
“You kind of did burn your bridge with her this week, as for that you saw all the scars on her, it’s likely… and you’re not going to want to hear this, but she likely suffers from amnesia from that first head trauma,”
Calvin clicked the line closed instantly. He didn’t want to hear that. Everyone used that as a freaking excuse around him where Marrin was concerned. No more did he want to hear that as reasons why they couldn’t answer simple questions.
Though he had heard from Casey about her being injured before and severely so, and now he’d seen all of her scars too, or many of them anyway, it was highly likely that this woman could indeed have amnesia, and that was why she didn’t recall Marrin at all. He scrubbed a hand over his face and got up. He wasn’t going to be able to track her, he’d not had a tail on the woman, just reports from those in the hospital that knew him coming in.
If he did track her to her home state and harass her, he would likely see the inside of a jail cell, because it would be a clear violation of his restraining order. She lived four states away at the shortest route. Him flying or driving out there, it would be seen as intentional.
That restraining order was for six months, so he would have to wait until it was over. If he stayed away from her all that time, there would be no reason for it to be renewed at all. It would seem as though he’d given up on her and let it all go.
Condments
Wil
Did it really surprise him that Marilyn’s lawyers had managed to get her out from under Calvin’s grip? No, if he had been her lawyer he’d have done the exact same thing, and though he’d thought it was a possibility that it might happen later on, he’d not actually expected it during that meeting.
He’d thought it would have been done with them agreeing to move her to Cliffside, and that she’d just never make it to the estate is all. She would leave the hospital as planned to, with him or Calvin and her lawyers, and then just not arrive. It was how he would have done it. It seems the Stevens were more industrious about their moving in the shadows, than even he won.
He also knew that Marilyn could afford to have that many lawyers around her, she made quite a nice profit. and also had the millions that Calvin had given her in the divorce as well. Talking Calvin down wasn’t an easy thing to do, but it was needed. And it did appear that at this moment in time he’d managed to do so.
Those very words he’d spoken about him holding Marilyn hostage in order to get to Marrin, had seen his friend actively think about that very thing, and he’d seemed to have realised he was going to do that, keep
Marilyn against her will out at Cliffside to get to Marrin, and he’d actually checked himself.
Calvin hadn’t thought that far ahead about what he would do when Marilyn was fully recovered, or if Marrin just never turned up. Which, of course, she wasn’t going to be able to, due to them being one and the same. Something he was actively keeping from Calvin for the man’s own sanity, and Marilyn and her children’s safety at this time.
He and Anabell were still working on that, getting the solid undeniable proof of Marilyn being Marrin. He was certain that the Stevens had also come to this conclusion and, with Calvin’s behaviour, they’d also agreed he was likely an abusive ex??usband. Whether they had told Marilyn herself yet, he didn’t know.
It could well be that Marilyn herself had figured it out and told them what she thought, then decided she also wanted to get away from Calvin, due to his terrible behaviour, and she needed to keep her children safe from him as well. Even if she thought they were his, she was just trying to protect her children from what she saw In the man. No one could blame her for that, not even Calvin.
Wil had already had a private meeting with Dr. Casey Jonston and gotten a description of the two boys that were with Marilyn. The man had stared at him for a long moment and clearly did not want to divulge that Information to him. Wil had sighed internally. If he wasn’t willing to tell Wil, then he’d definitely not told Calvin, and there was a reason for it in that man’s eyes.
“Please, Casey. I’m not going to show or discuss this with Calvin in any way at all,”
and he wasn’t. If they looked like Calvin even in the smallest of ways, Calvin would be on his jet to Virginia to hunt them all down and make them come back home with him. Because that would be in his eyes and mind all the proof he would need that she was Marrin, and he’d be on a mission of I will get what I want, regardless of what she or her children wanted.
“You’re aware William of his actions against Marilyn, yes?”
Casey had asked him seriously.
“Yes, all of them.”
Wil had nodded,
“I understand your concerns, but you yourself know how happy they were.”
He counted the man’s words.
“Really! I don’t know if I believe anything where Calvin and Marrin were concerned anymore. If he loved Marrin, William. Why would he harm her, if he really thinks she is Marrin?”
Casey had questioned him with a full frown.
“As a doctor who’s seen many abuse victims and, now, I’m her doctor, I have to protect her from harm. It’s my duty of care,”
he stated.
1 do understand that, and that is why it’s just you and I in this office and there is no Calvin,”
he’d sighed and looked at the man for a long minute, then stated,
“I do know now that Marilyn is actually Marrin. She changed her name the day after their divorce was official, and left on her own terms. Not even I’ve told Calvin that, and at this point, I won’t be,”
he admitted.
“Why’d they get divorced?”
Casey asked directly.
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