Filed to story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“Oh, that’s rich, Don’t touch you, when that’s all you ever wanted, when we were married.”
“Leave me alone.”
She yelled at him and was suddenly struggling against his grip, trying to pull away from him.
“No one in this city is going to help you, Marrin, not against me,”
he spat at her.
He felt a hand land on his arm, and then it was pulling at him.
“Let go of her, asshole.”
His eyes moved to find Lisa Stevens yanking at his arm, trying to make him let go of Rin. He shoved that woman off himself and yelled at her to stay out of it.
She fell down on the ground due to the force he’d used and cried out in pain as she face planted on the sidewalk. His hand snapped out, and he tried to latch onto Rin as she tried to rush away from him. He tried to grab her collar but got a fist full of her hair instead. As he yanked her back towards him, she cried out in pain as he grated out
“We’re not done talking yet.”
He hadn’t realised until now he had her by the hair and was hurting her.
Not until he saw tears brim in her light blue eyes, as she was now made to stare up at him. He heard that woman on the ground stating
“Police,”
his hand tightened for a moment in Rin’s hair, and she gasped out in more pain, her hands going to his to try and make him let go. He saw the tears fall, as fear and pain filled her eyes, and he let go instantly, stepping back away from her.
He was physically harming her. He’d never once harmed her before, he would never. He watched as she stumbled away from him towards her friend, and he turned and stalked away down the street, only to hear Lisa yell
“I’m calling the police asshole, Calvin Reeves isn’t it. Do you enjoy beating women?”
He’d turned and left, strode away, because no he didn’t, he’d never once in his life hurt Rin, it wasn’t in him. He’d completely lost control of himself just now. He had let all his anger about what Rin had done to him, all those years ago, consume him and get the better of him, now that he was face??o??ace with her once more, was all.
He had to walk away to calm himself and regain some control. He couldn’t really understand his own actions right now. He had been stalking her to get answers from her, knowing a part of him wanted to punish her for his pain and suffering. But then those tears she’d just shed looking up at him, seeing pain in her eyes as he physically harmed her, had undone him, because he didn’t want to hurt her.
Calvin needed to leave because he couldn’t understand his own actions right that very second.
Marilyn
She stood staring after that man, as tears spilled down her face from his attack on her. It was uncalled??or she had never met him before, as far as she knew. She couldn’t understand what she’d done to deserve his anger or brute force. If she had been his wife? And divorced him? As he’d stated, ‘ex??ife, she could now see why she would have left him, and didn’t recall it either.
She was probably traumatised by him, and probably didn’t want to remember all the physical abuse that she was likely to have suffered at his hands, behind closed doors inside their home.
She took a shaking breath in and dashed her tears away and looked at Lisa.
“Are… you alright?”
she asked, as she finally pulled herself together and stepped over to help her up off the ground. Only to hear her cry out in pain as she tried to push up with both hands, lifted her left hand up and looked at it
“It really hurts.”
She stated.
That phone call she was on was still in progress, she could see Lisa had called 911 and was still on hold. What was the point of an emergency hotline if they just put you on hold? One could well die before they spoke to you and found out what the problem was.
“To the nearest hospital, Marilyn,”
Lisa stated.
“I’m not that injured,”
She stated, though her head still hurt from where he’d unceremoniously yanked her back by her hair. It would go away, she imagined.
“I don’t care, I want a medical record of what happened, he can’t just assault us like that and get away with it,
“Lisa grated, and
“and I’m not going to let him.”
Marilyn looked at Lisa standing there, looking down the street after that man. She was cradling that arm as they watched him get in a car, throw a U??urn and drive off the other way.
1 think you need it more than I do, Lisa.”
Marilyn sighed. Callum had broken his wrist once before, and she recalled him holding his arm just like that.
“You need an x??ay. I’ll drive,”
she stated, and Lisa looked at her wrist once more, then just nodded.
“I don’t think I can anyway.”
That call finally connected as they were getting in the car, and Lisa sat there on the drive and told the woman on the line they’d just been attacked and assaulted out of nowhere, by a man they didn’t personally know, for reasons unknown to them. Other than from what she could gather, Marilyn looked like his late wife. That they were headed to the nearest hospital she suspected she had a broken wrist. She wanted the police to come and take their statements. They’d gotten the man’s name, and they would be pressing charges. She’d caught some of the assault on her phone as proof.
