Filed to story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
If she was who he thought she was, this was likely the very reason that she had run away from him. Clearly, she would have changed her name in an effort to hide from him, though she also knew that she’d been writing before she’d left him, and he obviously knew nothing about that at all. If she was his ex??ife she’d had a secret life from him, likely so that one day she could run the hell away from him, and live off her own money.
What was she going to do with this bit of information she now had? She didn’t know, because she had no idea if she actually was this Marrin Reeves, though her boys did look just like him, and then there was that she had named them in what would seem to be after him.
Though she did know that already, but had kind of let it slip her mind after all this time, she only thought about it now because she was thinking about him, and them, in conjunction with each other. Along with what had happened to her back then and the timeline of everything she now knew. That day of her accident, the man she’d called that day, who had never come looking for her, not even once, had been Calvin.
She had learned to let it go years ago, whoever that man Calvin had been that she’d called? He’d not wanted her, had not searched for her or reported her missing, from all the police had said, so her boys were just that, her boys, Cal and Vin.
Though now she had real concerns, because the last person she’d called causing her own accident, a part of her had always believed that, that man was her children’s father. So she’d named them after him in her own way. Now a part of her wondered if that was such a good idea at all.
Considering what Calvin Reeves looked like, and how he had behaved for the past two days towards her, if he was her ex??usband she didn’t want to know the truth, he could, as far as she was concerned, just go away and stay the hell away from her and her boys. She hoped he never laid eyes upon them.
Seeing them was likely only going to make him more insistent on her being his ex??ife, considering they looked just like him, their names joined together would make his, and they would be the right age even for his missing wife to have left him if she’d been pregnant at the time.
A part of her wondered if she was his ex??ife, had she known she was pregnant and left her abusive husband to protect her unborn children, from the brute she had married. Maybe that was the very reason she’d found the courage to leave him in the first place.
Calvin
He parked his car in the hospital car park and headed for the ICU, where he knew Marilyn was currently a patient. There were he’d seen many reporters outside the front of the hospital, likely waiting for him to turn up. So, they could yell questions at him about what they all suspected had happened, like they had just a few hours ago when he’d left the hotel.
He’d opted not to drive his normal car, a black Jaguar XF or his Bently Continental GT in Damson a deep refined purple that could look black in certain lighting, but had chosen his lesser??nown Audi SQ6 e??ron that was blue. Which had seen him go unnoticed by the press, who were all standing around outside the front of the hospital, something he’d seen as he’d driven by, had been checking for even.
He also didn’t have to walk through the lobby of the hospital or head off to information to find out what ward she was in. He had gotten that call from Casey, seeing that he was her benefactor here at the hospital, and so he knew exactly where she was.
He stopped walking as he stepped into the ICU ward itself and saw two boys standing with their hands pressed against the glass of ICU room number five, likely to be her children, he thought. Hamilton was standing there with them, though he was on the phone talking to someone, but he was watching what was going on inside that room just like the two boys were.
Calvin’s eyes moved to those inside room five, and he could see not only Lisa in there, but Casey himself, and several other doctors or the man’s own first, second or third year resident doctors, he thought. That man always had half a dozen of them around him. This was a teaching hospital.
She was awake, he could see that from here. That was a full relief to him, though why the children weren’t in there? That was a curiosity to him. Hamilton caught sight of him as he looked about casually, while he talked and frowned instantly.
Calvin had been hoping that man wouldn’t see him, before he turned and left the ward. No such luck. He’d also been hoping, as her lawyer, he’d have just gone back to his hotel at the end of the business day. That only Lisa would be here or no one at all, gone off to have dinner so he could talk to Casey in person, as he looked at Marilyn himself.
He watched as Hamilton said something quietly to the two boys and they both nodded to him, but they’d never once taken their eyes off their mother, they were likely itching to be in that room with her. Then Hamilton was striding towards him.
“Out Mr Reeves.”
He stated,
“You’re not allowed to be near my client, or my sister, for that matter. I also seriously doubt that Marilyn wants you anywhere near her children either.”
Calvin nodded and turned to leave. There was no point arguing with the man.
“I only came to see how she was doing, not to cause trouble.”
He answered as he walked out of the ward.
I’m glad to see you have some concern for the woman you harassed and have now put in the hospital.”
Hamilton muttered, though his tone still implied he also didn’t approve of Calvin being there at the ICU. never meant for any of that to happen. It was an accident.”
He told him
“I have already given my statement to the police and admitted it was my fault.”
“Good, because it is your fault, on purpose or not, you caused this. Let me make myself perfectly clear for you to understand, Mr Reeves: I don’t want you anywhere near my slater, my client or my client’s children. Because I believe that any of them could wind up dead, the next time you lose your temper.”
“That is ridiculous,”
Calvin stated right back.
Is It? Let me put it another way then, in a way you can understand… Let’s say your sister was stalked, attacked and then tossed down some stairs, by the man that stalked and attacked her, just the previous day. He was found standing over her body in that stairwell. What would you think about that man?”
Hamilton asked him.
Calvin glared at him because he knew he was right. That was exactly how he would see it; that the man would be a full threat to his sister, and he’d think that man was out to harm her, that he’d have his own lawyers handle it, as this man was as well.
“Go home, Mr Reeves, you are not welcome here, regardless that you’re footing the bill, and that would have happened anyway just in retrospect. I’d have sent you the bill and made you pay for it anyway,”
Hamilton stated, and when Calvin didn’t say anything for several minutes, he added just to make sure Calvin understood where he and his clients stood.
“You will be being served with an AVO and restraining order, which will request that you are to stay at least 500 metres from all of them at all times.”
That did not really surprise him. Wil had mentioned something about it himself.
“Is she alright?”
Calvin asked, and he did actually want to know
“Awake, but I don’t know at this point the severity of her injuries. If you want information, I suggest you have your lawyer Wil call me. He has my card. Everything from now on will go through myself and your lawyer. There will not be any direct contact between you and either of my clients, period.
“Or I’ll add more harassment charges to what’s already coming your way. Please leave and do not come back.
Do not make this any more difficult for yourself or your lawyer, who I think finds you to be more than annoying in disregarding his orders, when I believe he’s just trying to keep you under control and out of more trouble.”
