Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 117

Marylin

The boys were nonstop chattering all the way back to the house, and they grabbed that phone to text Calvin the moment they were in the door. She shook her head a little, but didn’t stop them. There was no reason to. She’d started letting them have free rein over that phone after Calvin’s family wanted to share photos.

She was not about to stop Calvin’s parents or even his sisters from interacting with the boys. She’d like his whole family and so had no reason to stop that from happening. She would likely just allow them to be around the boys all the time if that was what they wanted. So their family bonds could grow properly.

She knew Kay and Malcom, Calvin’s parents, would be loving, doting grandparents. That’s what they had been with their other grandchildren. Now that she recalled who she was and who they were, she did actually feel a bit on the sad side, that they’d not gotten to see the twins grow up, to spend time with them, which she

knew that they would have.

It wasn’t anyone’s fault, just she’d had that accident and forgotten everyone was all. If that hadn’t happened, she wouldn’t have kept the boys a secret from Calvin or his parents. Divorced or not, she knew deep down inside of her she’d have told him, regardless of whatever had happened between them. Dads had rights.

She sat and went through many of her photos of the twins, which most were just the twins, because she was behind the camera. There were a few selfies of her and them. She knew that his parents wanted one of the three of them together. She’d yet to sort that out, but seeing Calvin with the boys today and the way he was,

the way they were.

He’d just accepted them. She’d not really known what to expect on that front. They’d only had a contract marriage, and though she’d loved him, she didn’t get that from him to her, regardless of all she’d seen in the things Wil had given her. She didn’t feel it at all.

She shook her thoughts of Calvin off and focused on the task at hand, and wondered if she should take a new picture of the three of them together for Kay. Marilyn did recall the family mantle in Kay’s house. It had all her children’s wedding pictures and then ones of the grandchildren as well, all there. There had even been one of her and Calvin on it. Kay had insisted on Calvin producing one once she’d found out that her only son

had gotten married without telling anyone.

She’d also seen all the pictures come through and printed them out for the boys and had been very happy to see that Calvin’s sister Cheryl had a little girl named Heather. His sister, as far as she could recall, had been. told it was unlikely she’d have a baby of her own. Something she and her husband wanted. It had, it seemed, taken a decade, but there she was a little girl, and she had her mother’s eyes and her father’s curly hair. Was likely to be considered a miracle baby, she thought absently.

She called the boys to her after printing out a few photos on her own and then asked them which one they wanted to send to their grandma. They looked at her questioningly. “Wil told me that’s what she’ll want to be

called.” She lied to them. She just recalled that was what Kay went by with Bligh and Brighton was all.

“All of them,” Vin told her with a smile. “Grandma will love them all.”

“Just pick one,” she’d stated, and both boys pouted up at her, to which she chuckled softly. “How about a compromise then, why don’t we go through all the photos on my laptop, of you two growing up and put them

in a photo album to give to your grandparents for Christmas. A present from you to them.”

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That had made them smile big up at her. “One for dad too?” Cal had asked right away.

She thought about it for only a moment and nodded. “I don’t see why not if that’s what you want.” She told

them. “Come on, how about we go out and buy those albums now? We got time before all the stores close.”

She stood and watched the boys um and ah about which albums to buy. They didn’t want them to be the same, and they couldn’t seem to make their minds up, so she stepped in and helped them in the end. Picked a neutral coloured album with the word Family, embossed on it inside a white box with white embossed flowers and leaves around that box. Simple but pretty, and she’d thought Kay would like it.

Calvin was a different matter altogether; she’d never seen a single photo album in his hand that wasn’t at his parents‘ place. All his achievements were framed and on the walls in his apartment’s office, or inside the head office at C.R. Technology. She’d never had one either, saved everything to the cloud, but never printed a single one for the house.

She opted for something simple and professional looking, slate grey with a place for a picture to be slipped into the front. She’d put a picture of the twins there. Likely from when they were born as a way of showing

whose album it was.

She also picked up more photo paper, and printer ink as well. She had wrapping paper at home and ribbon so that wasn’t needed. She and the boys spent the rest of the afternoon going through photos, printing out which ones they wanted and making sure they were in the oldest to newest order. So that everyone could see them growing up as they flipped the pages.

She’d had to stop them from putting pictures of her in that album, because they did try to, wanted to put one of the three of them on that very first page. She’d stopped that only to have Callum stated “But mum, we’re a

“But he might like one of us all together,” Vincent stated, trying to get her to put one in there as well.

“Boys, this is an album about the two of you growing up. Not about me,” she’d countered.

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