Filed to story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“Yes.”
She stated
“I’ll leave like he wants, he’ll never have to see me again. The last time he will ever have to look at me is when I walk into that airport. I’ll wait, you call him.”
She stated, and walked over to sit on the couch in his office. She would wait, it was a bloody bluff and she knew it. She’d never drag him through court, but she would make him think so, and she would get just one kiss from the man she loved before leaving and never seeing him ever again.
“I’ve not seen this side of you before,”
Wil muttered.
“Not many do,”
she answered him,
“but you all forget I’ve always been on my own, can deal with anything thrown at me. Including being kicked out of the country. But I will go on my own terms, not his.”
She heard him sigh a little on the heavy side and watched him make the phone call to Calvin, tell him not only was she in his office, she had made amendments to the divorce papers. He read them out, and looked right at her afterwards. She knew Calvin was upstairs in his office on the 15th floor. She didn’t think he was going to come down here and yell and scream at her. She also didn’t think that her demands were that unreasonable. The only thing she’d actually changed was the house for cash. He had billions. What that house was worth was probably a pittance to him, pocket change, or he’d make back in a day on interest. There was silence for a solid three minutes and then Wil disconnected the call and looked right at her.
“He agrees, will sign this today himself, after you do, and I’ll courier over your copy of it.”
“Right.”
she nodded and got up, walked over and took the pen he was holding out to her and signed her name as Marrin Reeves for the last time. She pulled her letter of resignation out of her handbag and handed it to him.
“You can deal with that.”
She stated,
“My end is done.”
And she turned and walked from the office.
“What is it?”
he called after her.
“My resignation.”
She called right back over her shoulder. She returned to her home and looked at her funds. She’d made enough money as Marilyn Riddley to afford to put a deposit down on a house of her own. She would start looking for that today. And when that divorce settlement came in, she would pay it all in one go and finally own something of her own; that no one could take away from her. The only question was where did she want to go and what scenery did she want around her to help with her creativeness. All she did know was she wasn’t going to have a house near the ocean, so she supposed that one thought helped her with her decision no state that bordered the ocean. If not the ocean, then it had to be a forest or mountain, maybe on a river. She wondered if she could get all of those things in a new place to live. She would find somewhere quiet and out of the way, a place where no one knew Calvin Reeves or what his ex-wife looked like. She just needed a small cottage really, somewhere she could be alone with her thoughts. She’d always been on her own, so living alone in the middle of nowhere would probably suit her quite well. But where was that quiet place going to be?
Calvin He walked into Wil’s office.
“Did she sign it?”
he asked, walking over to his desk.
“She did,”
Wil nodded.
“I honestly don’t think I’ve seen her like that before. I think she’s ticked off.”
The man sighed.
“You’re really sure this is the right way, Cal, because I’m thinking now it’s going to backfire on you.”
“It won’t,”
he stated.
“We’ve discussed this before. I need a clear-cut statement so she’ll know the truth. That is what will do that. What was she so ticked off about? You didn’t state why she made the changes, only that if I didn’t agree she’d take me to court.”
“Do you think she’d really do that?”
Wil asked.
“No,”
Calvin stated as he sat down taking the papers from Wil,
“She’s not that kind of person.”
He saw her signature, small and neat, unlike his big bold flourish.
“The cash though, instead of the house I bought for her, tailored to her liking even? That is curious to me. She, from all I can see, loves the house, maintains it, plants trees and flowers.”
His eyes moved to Wil as he took out his pen to sign his name next to the amendments on the divorce papers.
“Mm, her reason being you’re sending her away. She doesn’t think she’ll get what you’re offering if she leaves before, she gets it.”
Wil shook his head.
