Filed to story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
He sat down in his chair and picked up the photo of the three of them, the family he’d always wanted, and screwed up all on his own. He felt heat behind his eyes as his vision blurred, and he had to blink back tears.
“I did this to us Marrin, I will fix it. We’ll have that family you wanted, be together. I promise you I’ll never give up on you, on us, our boys. Even if you never recall yourself as Marrin, I will bring us back together. Show you ! love you.”
he put that photo on the desk where he could look at it openly, while he thought about how he could do that.
He sat and looked at the other photos of her and the boys that Phillipe had sent him and came to a halt at a picture of the twins getting out of the car to got to school. Their school name was on the gate in the photo and an idea formed of how he could start the process of showing them he wasn’t a monster.
It was quite simple, he realised as a new plan formulated inside his mind. He was quite charitable with his money, donated to many things every year, be it hospitals, disease research, scientific research or the homeless and women’s shelters. Surely there was a way he could incorporate a charity for a school into that.
He looked up the school that the boys were attending, a public school. That surprised him a little considering how much money she had. Maybe there weren’t any private ones around, or perhaps she just thought public school was good for them, so they wouldn’t have that mentality of they were wealthy and above everyone else.
He himself had attended public school, as had she for that matter, so maybe something deep down inside of her didn’t see a need for a private education to be attended, she was doing just find with her public school education
A New Plan Formulates
He was sitting tapping his fingers on the desk. He knew he could work with the information he was looking at for the school, could see the size of the school, and his brain was already calculating what it would cost for him to upgrade the school to the latest smart technology. Nothing to him or his company really. It would all be tax??eductible anyway, so it didn’t matter.
Calvin looked at that photo and nodded
“Baby steps.”
He stated
“You’ll all see I’m not a tyrant.”
And he sat at his desk and worked on his plan, something he would take to Kelly and the department within his company that spent his money on donating to charities. He knew there was a specific percentage of the companies’ profits allocated to charities every year. Kelly was the lawyer in charge of that department. She had a whole team around her, they could work together to achieve his goal.
His idea was not about just donating to the school, but starting a charity himself, one that saw his company help to upgrade small public schools to the latest technology. Only his boys’ school would be the first school that was going to benefit from the new charity.
Calvin spent all week working on it alongside Kelly and the donation team, nutting out the finer details of what it was he wanted to achieve that would make only certain schools viable for the charity, things like the size of the school, the economic standpoint of not only the school, but the social class of those that used the school as well. They would take into account the annual income of the surrounding suburbs, and the housing market even. To determine which schools would fit the bill.
He’d told Kelly and the team to work on it, but he had already chosen the first school for the charity to help out. After that it would be based on everything they’d come up with.
Wil had come and stared at him when he’d heard about the charity he was starting, registered as an annex to C.R. Technology and asked why he’d started it. To which Calvin had stated simply,
“It’s a tax write??ff and a good one. It aligns with the company’s technology and Kelly and the team are sorting it out, and will allocate funding according to the rules and regulations we’ve set out for it.”
Again Wil had stared at him.
“Why now?”
he’d asked with narrowed eyes.
“My image and the company took a hit, as you’re well aware, I’m just trying to bring it back to what it was prior to…”
he’d shrugged.
“My indiscretion with that author is all.”
And it was true. His bad publicity had seen the company take a hit on the stock market.
Wil had nodded slowly and stated
“Alright.”
Marilyn
She was standing by the living room window waiting for the boys to come home from school. She’d stopped working for the day, due to having a headache that was so bad she’d not been able to focus on anything at all.
The day outside was quite windy, and the trees were blowing relentlessly with it, which brought dappled light in and out of her office, and it was playing havoc with her, causing her not just dizziness, but an ever??ncreasing headache, She’d had to pull on her sunglasses and leave the studio to return to the house where the overhang of the veranda stopped a lot of the light play changes that affected her.
She’d also had to take something for her headache and sit still for a long while to make that dizziness go away. Though she had gotten up and made herself a cup of tea, and was just holding it now, while waiting for the boys to come home. She watched them get out of the car and look towards her office, across the creek and not see her there.
Then they were just rushing in through the door calling out for her, both their faces lit up with big smiles, they were grinning up at her so big, clearly excited about something.
“What makes you two so happy?”
she asked.
“The school is getting a big donation.”
Callum smiled up at her.
“It’s getting all new computers and the latest classroom technology.”
That made her stare at them, a frown on her face. She’d not read anything like that in the monthly update magazine that came home on the last Friday of every month.
“From where?”
she asked.
“Some big corporation,”
