Filed to story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
he stated, and it was what he wanted regardless of the threats he was making
“Rational resolution? With a man obsessed,”
Liam stated,
“I doubt that could ever happen.”
“As long as Marilyn is cooperating, I will leave Calvin out of it until the restraining order is over. That way, Calvin has time to calm down and let everything go, and when I sit him down and tell him. I will lead with, that he harmed you, Marilyn, who, it is now proven, beyond a doubt are in fact Marrin.”
He sighed heavily. knowing it wasn’t going to go down so well.
“This, I believe, will see him change his attitude instantly, and he’ll become guilt??idden and apologetic. His behaviour should return to that of the man that was married to Marrin. Not remain as a man obsessed, and thinking everyone that looks like Marrin is out to trap him for his money. Which is his actual problem.”
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“You hope,”
Liam stated natly.
“You can’t predict how he will react.”
“Hmm, not to the enth degree no. But I have known Calvin since high school, and he was fine up until those women that resembled Marrin started coming out of the woodwork, pretending to be his loving wife that had been missing. All of them told him they had amnesia and had just recovered their true identity. None, however, knew that he and Marrin were divorced. Easy to determine they weren’t Marrin, just trying to catch a billionaire for themselves.”
Will explained Calvin’s obsession with women that looked like Marrin to them.
“Marilyn here, is actually his missing ex??ife, the woman that he loves, so that will give him closure about her, and see him settle. Relief will happen that he, or I, have finally found Marrin, and then, of course, the guilt over what he did and the knowledge of the twins will all come into play. Seeing him return to the Calvin, that Marrin once knew.”
“Again, you hope.”
Liam sighed.
“Yes, but it’s best to do this my way, rather than to let Calvin just turn up out of the blue and again risk his obsession kicking in. Right now, he’s of the opinion that Marilyn is Marrin’s twin sister due to there being no birthmark on her. This has also started to see him calm down and start to let his obsession go.
“I understand your injuries are what removed the birthmark, all the scarring and surgical procedures. He’ll understand that when I show him your hospital photos. He’s seen all your scars down your side and on your legs.
“But at this moment he still wants you, Marilyn, to be close to him, to bring Marrin to him. That is why he’s not already hunting you and dragging you back to Houston. But I also know him very well. He’s still going to want to come here or have you go there, so that he can explain to you what he wants, for you to contact
Marrin, and get her to come to him.
“He’ll likely be calm about it, given a few months to let his obsession go. This is as close as he’s ever gotten to finding Marrin, and he’s not going to risk losing that connection. I also think pre empting it might help.”
“Pre??mpting?”
Marilyn frowned at him now.
“Mm, a plan pre??rganised between you and I, your lawyer if you like. I need to figure out the actual best way to approach this. Something that will give Calvin what he wants in a round about way. I’m still not certain as to how it will be done yet.
“Although if you, yourself, Marilyn could see to the truth of things and find a way that could see this happen, I’d actually appreciate the help. You plot and plan in your books all the time. So, you might just be the one to come up with the perfect plan.
“One that will not only work for Calvin but suits yourself and the boys as well. Perhaps it will even be better than anything I can come up with, or between the two of us, we can come up with something together that will work for both you and Calvin.
“But something has to be done about all of this. The man is in a great deal of pain and I know you have no memories at all, but I can’t leave him like that, in agony and torment over Marrin. When I know, you were Marrin.”
He sighed heavily. It was again the truth.
“Technically, I don’t have to do anything. We’re divorced and have gone our separate ways,”
Marilyn told him with a shrug.
“Regardless of all this, the worst that can happen is what? Joint custody of the twins.”
“From a court’s point of view, yes,”
Wil nodded.
“You both have the means to raise and support the children.
But if Calvin lays eyes upon them before knowing everything, he’ll likely get angry, and just think you kept them away from him on purpose, are faking this amnesia, and he’ll go back to being obsessive and probably Just come here and take them. t’s very unlikely he’ll even get permission. Hin obsession will see it as a way to force your hand into telling him you are Marrin, and what he wants, deep down inside himself, beneath that obsession and what is actually driving it; is Marrin back in his life. He’s never truly let her go. That’s why the obsession exists. So, let me help you to stop that from happening by you working with me.”
Marilyn was just staring at him now. She, he knew, didn’t like what he was proposing, and a part of him could understand why, but another part of him really needed her to do this to help his friend return to the man he had once been.
Please, Marilyn, watch all that is on the USB, and we’ll meet again in about four weeks, here if you like, and try and hash out a plan of action. Do you want me to do a DNA test on the boys against Calvin as undeniable proof? I’m in his office or apartment all the time.
“I can get his DNA, I can send it to you, and you can have it tested yourself, or I can send it to Liam, and he can run it against the boys. I do not need to know the company you use, or when you run the test, I just ask you to be honest about it. This will show that I have no intention of tampering with it, and if Calvin is completely unaware, then he also can’t now can he?”
he offered up.
“I think that is a very good idea,”
Liam nodded.
