Filed to story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“Oh, sorry, I’ll wait.”
He stated realising he was interrupting.
“Is that Calvin, Wil?”
Liam asked, obviously having heard him or realised why he’d just stopped talking mid??entence.
“Yes, and to answer you, when we’re all ready.”
He stated as he closed out the email and his schedule Tll see you in three weeks.”
Wil told Liam.
“I’m trusting you to keep a tight lid on this Wil. If not, I’ll take it as a breach of our verbal agreement from the previous meeting,”
Liam stated and clicked the line closed.
Wil put the phone down and sighed as he looked at Calvin,
“Sometimes I wish you’d have my secretary announce you.”
he half muttered to his friend, who he knew was used to just strolling into his office anytime he liked. Hell, any office in this building seeing as it was his building and his company.
Calvin turned and looked out the open door to where his secretary would normally sit.
“Janine’s not there right this minute,”
he stated, waving at the empty desk.
“You have what?”
Wil asked, he could indeed see his secretary wasn’t at her desk.
“A need to understand this bill that I just got.”
He held out a bill from the Evans and Stevens law firm.
Wil read it,
“Ah, that would be because Marilyn is not footing the bill where anything to do with you is concerned, and so that is the bill from my meeting with her and her lawyer. You wouldn’t have that bill if you’d not touched her,”
Wil stated pointedly.
“It’s a fortune,”
Calvin muttered as he sat down across from Wil.
“First class tickets, a five??tar hotel, all meals and transfers.”
“Mm.”
Wil nodded, he could see it was.
“Let it go, Calvin, I’ll go and talk to accounting myself. On that note, you’re about to get hit with another bill. I’ve got another meeting with Marilyn and her lawyer at the end of the month.”
Calvin sat staring at him for a long minute and then just nodded.
“Why so many meetings? I thought you’d sorted it all out during that last trip. Calvin waved his hand at the bill Wil now had.
“So what exactly is going on?”
he asked.
Nothing is going on, just a follow??p. I can do it over the phone if you like, but considering who you think she is, or could be. I just figured you’d want me to lay eyes on her, and actually see her progress; after you injured her and all,”
he muttered, he was more than unhappy about that, especially now that Wil knew he was the one that was right.
Calvin frowned deeply at him, didn’t like hearing that himself by the look of it, but then he nodded slowly.
“T’d like to go myself…”
“You can’t.”
Wil cut him off,
“not until the restraining order is over, just leave it alone.”
He sighed
“Show, Marilyn and her lawyers you can actually do that, then I’ll broach the subject myself with her after some trust building. Which I am trying to do with these meetings. If I can manage it, I’ll approach putting you in a room with her, see if she is amenable to it. That is my actual goal, Calvin, with these meetings, it will just take time,
I feel.”
