Filed to story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
1 do understand that, and that is why it’s just you and I in this office and there is no Calvin,”
he’d sighed and looked at the man for a long minute, then stated,
“I do know now that Marilyn is actually Marrin. She changed her name the day after their divorce was official, and left on her own terms. Not even I’ve told Calvin that, and at this point, I won’t be,”
he admitted.
“Why’d they get divorced?”
Casey asked directly.
“That is complicated, but Calvin did have his reasons. You’re also aware that he was in Italy waiting for her plane to land, right there to see it crash. Their divorce is not what it seems. But it had to happen for other things to fall into place. Only Marrin wasn’t informed of Calvin’s reason, hence this colossal mess we’re in now,”
“Does he love Marrin or hate Marrin?”
Casey asked with a heavy sigh. The man had listened and seemed to understand he’d thought.
“He loves Marrin, but all those other women, pretending to be her, have royally screwed him up, and he thinks anyone that looks like her needs to be outed and punished by him for trying to trick him. That’s how this happened and got out of hand.”
“It’s not right William, she did nothing wrong to him,”
Casey muttered.
“Tm aware,”
Wil nodded.
“And I’m working on it, sorting it all out. It’s not going to be easy for me, certainly not fun for him or Marilyn. And when I do tell him after many months of him letting it go, and learning to come back to normal, the actual truth is likely going to nearly kill him. When he realises he has injured the woman he actually loves, solely because of a dark, twisted obsession where he thought she was an impostor,”
He sighed. Even now, Wil was not looking forward to that day arriving, even though he knew it was months away.
“Then just stay out of it, and don’t tell him William. She has no memories of him or being Marrin. Her medical files state she actually has amnesia, so we should all just leave it alone,”
Casey told him,
“The boys, Casey… if not for them and what I suspect, seeing you’re doggedly dodging my questions about them. That is the problem. If they’re not his, I will leave it alone completely, and never tell him, but if they are his… as I now suspect, he has a right to know about them and they him. Who their dad is and live the life they should have been given from the moment they were born….
“Calvin loved Marrin and wanted a family with her. That was in fact the very reason for their divorce. Their original prenup had many clauses, one that prevented them from starting a family.”
He told Casey, it was close enough to the truth..
Casey frowned deeply,
“That could be amended without the need for a divorce. A post??uptial agreement. could have been made.”
“Oh, I know that. I tried to talk Calvin into that, but he’s so bloody stubborn and set in his way of thinking. He had a grand plan in his mind and wouldn’t let it go. He couldn’t see that it was going to backfire on him, which of course it did. Calvin is highly intelligent but emotionally stunted at the same time. Like most geniuses are. They think they are always right, even when they’re not.”
“So you want me to help you get them back together?”
Casey sighed heavily now.
“No, all I want from you is to see the boys, to know how old they are and what their names are. All of these things I will keep to myself until I believe Calvin has gotten past his obsession, or can at least be in control of himself around Marilyn,”
Wil told him.
“I know there will be footage of the boys here as well.”
Casey nodded,
“Something I myself kept from Calvin, because of all that was going on with Marilyn, and all he’d done to the others that looked like her,”
he muttered. Casey did know that Calvin wasn’t actually a monster of a man. He could see that he was a tortured soul, that just wanted to be left alone by those claiming to be Marrin.
He stood and motioned for Wil to follow him and took him to security and had the footage of the day Marilyn was taken to the VIP room brought up for him to see. The two boys were right there with her.
“Twins, both with black hair and hazel green eyes.”
Casey had stated
“I made sure that was kept from Calvin due to the circumstances.”
He had the photo printed out and gave it to him, it wasn’t the best quality but at least it was something,
“I read in her medical file that she found out she was pregnant during her stay in the hospital, after her emergency surgery. They’re lucky to have survived, as was she.”
Will nodded as he took the picture and looked at it. This was going to help with proof, now he just needed to get a DNA test done, though that would be more difficult to get. He didn’t even know where, in Virginia, Marilyn lived. But if they were Calvin’s boys, as he suspected, that would also prove Marilyn was Marrin, and he could register her DNA on file, so this couldn’t happen ever again.
Wil
Over the past month, between himself and Anabell, they had managed to piece together everything bit by bit, the entire timeline of how and when Marrin had changed her name and became Marilyn.
It had started for her the very day after she’d signed the divorce papers, being that she was so good at researching herself she’d found out and managed to organise the changing of her name to Marilyn Riddley, who was or had been her pen name for her writing career, that no one had known about.
