Filed to story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“I never saw her as materialistic.”
“She not,”
Cal murmured, and leaned back in his chair.
“She doesn’t spend any of my money, has a credit card and only uses it when I tell her to go and buy something to wear for a function.”
He signed those amendments.
“Does she think I will stiff her out of the settlement.”
“That was the impression I got, considering her view on you sending her away.”
Wil nodded. Cal frowned at him now,
“I’m not sending her away, it’s an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy.”
He corrected the man.
“I told her that myself, yesterday.”
“You did. She, however, saw the one-way plane ticket and deduced, you’re not only divorcing her, but kicking her out of the country. If she’s not paid prior to leaving, like you wanted to wait until the day after the divorce is settled, which is the day after she leaves for that trip. If you don’t pay up, she’ll not be able to afford to come back. So, kicking her out.”
Cal huffed now.
“That is not what I’m doing.”
“Look, I told you this was not the right way to divorce her. You somehow got it in your head that it needs to be this way. We could have just changed the marriage contract to suit your and her needs. It would have been easier, and she’d not be mad at you right now. I guarantee she is, called you Calvin.”
he held out a piece of paper.
“This is her resignation.”
Cal sighed,
“Don’t read into that Wil, it’s part of our contract when the marriage is over, she has to resign.”
“Well, she did.”
He waved the paper at him.
“You want to read it.”
Cal sighed now, by the sound of that, the answer was going to be ‘no’. He looked at it. It was short (I, Marrin Huxley resign from C.R. Technology.) He looked at Wil,
“And what is wrong with it? No muss, no fuss, just how I like things.”
“God you’re thick sometimes, for a genius. Marrin Huxley. She’s Marrin Reeves, already either changed her name back or is going to in the next few days.”
“That’s fine.”
He shrugged.
“I don’t see the problem with it. Make things smoother, in fact.”
Wil was just staring at him,
“You don’t understand girls, that’s her way of telling you goodbye. She told me she’d leave, and you’d never have to see her again.”
“It’ll be fine,”
Cal stated simply.
“I’m trying to tell you I don’t think it will be. Let me tear this up and call her back here for a change of contract.”
“No. I don’t want this contract marriage to continue and if we did, she’d still want that baby, and there will certainly be no baby within a contract marriage between her and I.”
Calvin stated and got up.
“Trust me in my process, she’ll understand me when she meets me again after the divorce is finalized.”
“You’re insane Calvin, why on earth divorce a woman you want to be married to?”
“For that very reason, Wil,”
he stated, and put the two sets of papers on the table,
“file that with the judge and file that with HR.”
He stood up and headed out of the office. His plan was simple in his mind, and it would work. He knew that. Though her clauses for divorce made him chuckle, she was trying to make him actually say goodbye to her, and he knew it. Actually, seeing her off on her trip, she was so cute sometimes, it made him shake his head. He didn’t think she understood how cute she was. His wife was beautiful. He’d heard it many times from those around him,
“Your wife is not only beautiful, but smart too. Got yourself a whole package.”
