Filed to story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
Vincent stated, and was then digging into his bag.
“Everyone got a thingy about it.”
He pulled out a small booklet and held it up to her, and she saw right there on the front of it was the charity’s name and alongside it, a company’s name; C.R. Technology.
She took the booklet and sighed internally as she realised this was Calvin Reeves’ company. She waved them off to put their bags down, and go get after??chool snacks, as she flipped through the pages.
Not only was their school getting all new computers and tablets for every classroom, but they were also getting all new electronic whiteboards and the latest computer programs that benefited the educational needs of the school’s children. The underprivileged children were all going to be getting tablets to take home, and if they didn’t have internet at home, C.R. Technology was going to provide it to them for free for the next 12 months.
It was apparently a new charitable initiative by the CEO and founder, one Calvin Reeves; one lucky primary school per year would see the classroom technology be completely upgraded at no cost to them. She moved her eyes to the boys after snapping a picture of the cover of it, and she handed it back to them. There was no photo of Calvin Reeves in that booklet.
She sent an email of that photo to Liam Stevens and typed a message to go with it
“I believe William, Calvin’s lawyer, lied to us, this just came home from school with the boys.”
She knew that Liam had vetted Calvin Reeves therefore would know exactly who was now sending things to the school where the twins were attending.
It took him almost an hour to reply to her email with
“We’ll address that in the meeting. William assures me he’s said nothing, sounded annoyed when I called him directly about this and then sent the picture
She looked at her boys sitting smiling on the couch. They’d taken the booklet back and were going through it. and she knew why. They understood who Calvin Reeves was, the man from Texas who thought she looked like his missing wife. When she sat down with them, they looked up at her.
“Can we look him up? Callum asked.
She wasn’t going to be able to stop it, they could likely just do it from the school if she didn’t allow it. She had no idea when this upgrade at the school was going to happen, or if that man himself was going to turn up. But it was clear to her that he’d found out the boys were his, or maybe had seen a picture of her boys and just presumed they were his.
She didn’t really know which it was, but it was all going to come out, and she had no say in it. Marilyn nodded at them.
“I’ll do it.”
she murmured and went and got her own laptop. She guessed it wasn’t right to let them see all the bad stuff that had been written about him around her from their trip to Houston. Doing it herself, she would be in control of what they saw.
Marilyn made sure all the information they got was about his company. There was, however, a photo of him on there with his bio; that hadn’t been there a few days ago, he’d updated it. Marilyn was betting on the reason why he’d updated his profile. It was so that if the school put it up for them to see, his picture would be right there for the boys to look at. The man was trying to encroach on not only her life but the boys. She wondered if this was a breach of his contract.
He technically wasn’t here, or bothering her. He was just setting out to upgrade the boy’s school. She wondered what made him think about doing that. Or was he trying to interact with the boys in a roundabout way? That showed them he wasn’t a bad person, that he was not only wealthy, but charitable as well, she supposed.
She saw them both really look at Calvin Reeves and then two sets of hazel??reen eyes were looking right at her.
“That is the man from Houston,”
she told them simply.
“The one the nurses were talking about, said you looked like his missing wife,”
Callum said, and then turned back to the picture on the screen to really look at him.
“He’s got black hair and green eyes,”
Callum murmured,
“just like we do.”
Again he looked up at her and so did
Vincent.
“I know what he looks like.”
she nodded slowly. There was no more being able to deny it.
“Are you curious about him? Think he could be your father?”
she asked them calmly.
She watched them both turn and look at the picture and then each other.
“He’s from Texas, where your old house was.”
“Yes.”
She nodded.
“His wife’s name is Marrin.”
She told them,
“She went missing right around the time I lost my memories too.”
Marilyn watched as they both stared up at her a little wide??yed. She had their full and undivided attention now.
“I don’t know what to feel about everything boys. Where that man is concerned.. but his lawyer had me run a DNA test on you two against that man”
