Filed to story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“Let it go, please.”
“And she just happens to come here to Houston, where I live. She’s going to be like all the other women that look like Marrin.”
“No, she’s not. She’s on a book tour, and has been for six weeks. I can even tell you where she’s been on that tour. Like I said, Calvin, I checked into her myself. It’s not her.”
He didn’t know. This was the only woman he’d ever seen that really truly actual, oked like his ex??ife.
“I still want to meet her,”
he stated,
“When and where is the book signing?”
“Calvin leave her alone, it’s not Marrin. Anabell will tell you as well, she met her, in New York at the first book signing.”
“So, what you’re saying is.”
Calvin looked right at him now, more than annoyed by those words.
“You’ve known about this for six weeks,”
he bit out,
“and said nothing to me at all.”
“You’re taking it the wrong way, Calvin. I have spent the past six weeks vetting the woman to see if it was Marrin, and if I’d found out it was Marrin I would have told you,”
Wil stated.
Calvin wondered about that for a long moment, considering the man’s thoughts on the woman, that she’d not staged anything, that she’d actually been in an accident herself during that phone call. That she’d been calling him, to let him know she wasn’t on the plane, that she was alright. The complete opposite to his own thoughts on the matter. So would Wil tell him to stop him from going to that woman and confronting her?
“I’m your best friend Calvin, I would tell you if I found Marrin. Hell, I wouldn’t even tell Marrin I knew it was her, Just walk in here and hand you and address and state, I found her. Do you really think I would hide something like that from you? Knowing what you would likely do to me, for hiding her if I found her.”
“I’d beat you to death,”
Calvin muttered.
“I know that,”
Wil nodded.
“How about we just leave her alone? You’re worried this woman will be like all the rest. Well, that’s easy to test out. Don’t do anything. She’ll come to you if she’s like all of them. Tell everyone she’s your dead wife. Like they all did. Right.”
Wil put to him.
Calvin sighed, and nodded that was true. Everyone of those women had done that, turned up at his office or a police station, a hospital and claimed to be his missing wife, that they’d miraculously escaped the plane crash, but couldn’t recall who they were until years later. He hated every bloody one of them.
“Fine.”
He finally muttered and sat down, and he saw Wil visibly relax, and then just sink down on another chair and stare at him for a long moment.
“I didn’t think I was going to be able to talk you out of it for a minute there,”
he muttered.
Calvin didn’t think so either. His eyes moved back to his phone and he was once again reading the threads about this look??like. One of them stated,
“Do you think Calvin Reeves knows?”
He clicked his phone’s screen off only to have his own mother call him. He sighed heavily, and hit the answer button.
“I’m aware mother. It’s now.”
not her Wil has vetted the woman; She’s been an author for 10 years
“She looks just like how I would picture her after all this time.”
His mother murmured
“No body Calvin.”
She sighed.
He closed his eyes and wondered if it was time to out the truth of the situation; that he’d divorced Marrin only to have her disappear. But he’d kept that to himself. Only three people knew other than the judge that had approved the divorce.
“It’s not her,”
he repeated himself, and didn’t know if he was trying to convince her or himself at this point. Go meet her if you like, see for yourself. Anabell has come face to face with her. Wil stated she did recognise her.”
His mother huffed,
“Anything could have happened to her. She might not even know…”
