Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
he asked.
“You could look at it that way, but if I’d called you and not him, then I’d likely have called something like Wil and Liam.”
She shrugged.
“That is not undeniable proof now, is it? He also never looked for me. No one did, not even you, who was supposedly my friend and lawyer.”
“That is not true. Calvin searched for weeks all over the world looking for Marrin. We thought you were on the plane. He was devastated at the loss of Marrin. Only no one knew you’d changed your name and closed out everything to do with Marrin. Become Marilyn Riddley.”
He sighed heavily.
“Which just shows that not only didn’t I want to be married to him anymore, but I also didn’t want him to know where I was, doesn’t it?”
she countered herself.
“Otherwise, why would I do all of that, unless I needed to get away from him, escape away from him.”
She offered up.
William sighed this time,
“Again, it’s not like that. Calvin did not tell you the real reason why he wanted the divorce. He had this crazy plan in his head of a grand gesture that he wanted to show you he loved you. He was in fact waiting for you in Italy with flowers and a new engagement ring. He was going to propose to you for real, and tell you he loved you; a grand gesture. Only it completely backfired.”
William muttered.
“What?”
she frowned at him now, not really understanding him.
“Calvin is not so good at reading women. I told him it was wrong, and you wouldn’t like it done this way. Wouldn’t understand it, but he being who he is, like a dog with a bone, Calvin didn’t think that he could possibly be wrong.
“That you loved him enough to see it for what it was, and you would understand him and his intentions when you saw him in Italy. Only you never intended to take the trip, allocated to you in the divorce. Took those divorce papers all wrong and I couldn’t tell you what he was up to,
1 was not allowed too, nor could I convince you that he wasn’t trying to get rid of you permanently. Which is what you believed was going on. That Calvin was sending you not on a trip, but out of the country for good.”
She saw his look of near exasperation, and then he shook his head.
“It was not how I advised him of how things should go. He wouldn’t even listen to me,”
William went on.
“You, however, made changes to the divorce agreement, added in three clauses of your own, to suit your thoughts on the matter, I suppose. You walked into my office and told me Calvin could accept them, or you’d just take him to court. You were pissed off about the divorce itself.”
He slid a folder across the table a moment later for her to open.
“This is what I handed you the day Calvin asked for a divorce, and you’ll see your own amendments: You hand wrote them at the back.”
He smiled at her.
“I think that will be self??xplanatory as to how you as Marrin, actually felt about Calvin.
“I’ve also got the footage of you and him at the airport, if you wish to see it, that clause you insisted on.”
he chuckled softly.
“I liked it, and Calvin even chuckled when I told him what it was. He just nodded and agreed when he read it. Agreed to it because it was something he himself wanted. But he couldn’t do, due to your contract marriage, and everything he then had planned out for the two of you to come back together.”
Marilyn flipped through the divorce papers and read her three clauses, and there it was again her neatly printed handwriting. She didn’t want the house, but it’s value in cash, on top of the four million that had been allocated as part of the settlement.
“How much was the house worth?”
she asked curiously, recalling the shock of having a 16 million dollar transfer into her bank account when she’d been able to check it.
“12 million.”
Wil stated,
“You got a full pay out of 16 million in the divorce.”
She held in the sigh that was trying to escape her. That was the amount of the transfer. Her eyes moved to the clauses she’d apparently written in, Calvin had to personally pick her up and drive her to the airport, then he had to kiss her goodbye, a real proper kiss.
Her eyes moved to Wil, and he smiled right at her.
“You wanted, I believe, to know what it was like to kiss the man you loved before leaving him for good.”
He stated without hesitation.
It did seem that way even to her with all of this in front of her. She could now see why he had come in person and not included these in the information package. He wasn’t just trying to have her realise it, he was watching her every reaction to what was being put before her.
“I could have just simply been making him do something he didn’t want to do!”
she stated.
“True.”
Wil nodded and slid a USB across the table to her,
“on that, is you and Calvin at the airport, that very
.CH.58 kiss and your reaction to it. Also, Calvin in Italy waiting for you, seeing your plane crash??and and his reaction to it. Do not ever tell Calvin I have given you that. It’s not something he likes to remember or wants others to see. He thought he had gotten rid of all the coples of it. There are also all the news articles and news footage of him during that time when he was searching for you.”
She heard Liam huff from next to her and looked at him, only to have William state
“I think your lawyer believes me at this point.”