Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 114

CH 114

Calvin

He focused on the twins. Marilyn was still not interested in interacting with him and once the ice was broken with the boys, they were quite animated and very energetic. They ran around that table and then were up and running about the room. He got up to play with them and also tried to contain them to the part of the room that they were in where there was not many sitting around, but he’d noted they’d gotten several annoyed looks from those in here.

He’d verbally apologised to them, and managed to get them back to the table. Marilyn was of no help, obviously used to their behaviour, or he could supposed watching to see what he would do about it. Though she appeared to be more than comfortable over there just chatting to Wil. He’d made no progress with her at all, but Wil seemed to have managed to connect with her and build trust.

All he could do was show her his family side while they were all in the room together. He’d always enjoyed being an uncle. Still tormented his nephew quite a bit. He didn’t think that he would be any different with his own children. He wasn’t trying to be, was in fact just being himself as he played and contained his own boys.

He did manage to wrangle them and get them back to the table. They’d polished off their milkshakes and were sitting eating from the loaded trays. Were he though currently settled for the time being, chatting away. Marilyn then informed him that things would be staying formal between them for as long as she deemed fit, and he sighed internally, that could be for the rest of her life for all he knew.

He really did need to find a way to break the ice with Marilyn herself. But he had no idea how to go about doing that, if he was totally honest with himself. She had all the facts about them laid out for her. She knew

everything on paper, but that didn’t override the only memories she had of him, how he’d been towards her.

Wil was likely going to be right. He may never be able to win her over and bring them back together.

Calvin tried to interact with her and she kind of just stared at him, and then answered him with

monosyllables for the most part. Yet if Wil asked her anything she answered in full sentences, which showed him just how little progress he’d made with her and he now knew he thought exactly where he stood with her

as well.

“Marilyn.” He addressed her after the boys settled down completely and were just sitting playing games on their tablets. “May we discuss the upcoming holiday?” he asked.

“I don’t want you at my house, Mr Reeves.” She answered straightforwardly.

He had to hold onto the heavy sigh that was trying to escape him, and he’d actually been prepared for her to say ‘no‘ as well. No one in his family and not even Wil thought that Marilyn was going to want him encroaching on such a big holiday. But he had to address it because he was the boy’s father, and he did want

to see them on that day.

“I would like to discuss it. Perhaps I could stay here in this hotel, and you could see your way to bringing the boys here to me for a little while./So they and I can spend some time together. If you’re not comfortable with me coming to your home?” he offered up a compromise instead. He did understand why it was a no after all he’d done.

He watched as her eyes moved towards the twins. They’d gone quiet, he now realised and were looking at their mother, with what he thought were hopeful eyes, and he understood it was something that they also

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wanted. That warmed his heart.

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“I guess that could be arranged. I’ll, however, want a signed agreement that if I drop them off to you here for a few hours, that you won’t just put them on your plane and take them away from me,” Marilyn stated.

He blinked at her words and asked, “Drop them off?” with a frown. “I was thinking you’d stay with them the

entire time as well.”

She leaned back in her chair and stared right at him, and he got Déjà vu. As he saw Marrin in that tiny office with her girls when he’d been there to buy them out, and they’d been discussing numbers, numbers she’d been unhappy with, he had to stop and shake it off, and not think like that. She was not Marrin, even if she did have some of those mannerisms shining through.

His frown deepened with those very words, as he didn’t know how to take them, although he understood it was à full dig at him, but was it aimed at what he’d done to her, what she knew about him and that contract marriage or his looks even. He knew most women found him attractive and she too had done so once herself. He let that one go and put it down to how he’d treated her. “I’m sorry, Marilyn, for all that has transpired between us, and I do understand it was completely my fault. But I think it would be best if the day was spent with all of us together.”

“I can have Cameron or Heath stay with the boys,” she stated with a shrug. “You may not see them right now, but do you honestly think they’re not here somewhere? That I would be this relaxed around you if they weren’t here, and I didn’t have insurance, I wouldn’t come to harm.”

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