Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 40

CH 40

Calvin

He was standing in his penthouse apartment listening to the doctor as he listed out Marilyn’s injuries, and all he could do was sigh heavily and scrub a hand over his face. It had been three and a half hours, and she’d still not woken up. Her lawyer and her agent were there along with her two children.

Dr. Casey Jonston, who was now in charge of her case, had hesitated when mentioning them to him, and then he’d just sighed and murmured “I was told not to mention them to anyone from your legal team, or yourself, Calvin.”

To which he’d simply sighed once more, and let it go. That was actually understandable considering the circumstances. He’d likely be no different if he was her, or her legal team. Not wanting the assailant to have any more information on her or her family, it wasn’t at all necessary.

She had three fractures that needed setting, a wrist and ankle and one of her fingers; he knew she’d tried to protect her head in the fall. She also had a sprained and severely swollen knee and three cracked ribs. Multiple contusions over her entire body and several lacerations, including one to her head, that needed

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They’d not seen any signs of spinal damage, but she was suffering from a moderately severe closed traumatic brain injury, and that was why she was currently unconscious. Casey had stated, “The longer she remains unconscious, the worse her symptoms upon waking up were likely going to be.” Then he’d listed out the possible symptoms to come from her brain injury

They’d moved Marilyn from the ED to the ICU to closely monitor her until she woke up. She had minimal responses to external stimuli, but no bleeding within the brain itself had been seen in the MRI. But there was swelling and their neurosurgeon that had looked at her results was hopeful that the swelling would resolve itself, and was monitoring her closely for that.

Though the amount of time it would take, was always something that was an unknown factor with all brain injuries, it was dependent on the individual. All head injuries were considered to be different from each other, even if they’d seen the same thing before.

Calvin closed his eyes as he realised the utter seriousness of his actions, unwarranted actions he also now knew, and asked the one question he did not really want to know the answer to, but had to know at the same time, “Worst–case scenario, Casey?”

“Unable to remember who she is, loss of concentration and thinking capabilities, and loss of motor control for a time, if those things happened it could take years for her to recover,” Casey had inform him honestly.

“So, the loss of her career,” Calvin murmured, pushing a hand through his hair. “She’s an author, and relies on her brain solely for that. This could well affect her ability to write, and for the rest of her life; that is what you’re telling me, right?”

“Yes. That is the worst–case scenario, Casey stated. “But it could also be none of that, Calvin. We won’t know until she actually regains consciousness, and Jacob Holdings, our neurosurgeon, comes in here to test her neurological abilities. Though he did state it does seem that she has recovered from a brain injury before, so she could do this one as well, though it could also go the other way and be even worse than expected due to previous damage.”

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What do you mean? Calvin frowned

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“She is covered in scars, Calvin. I’ve got her medical records from her home hospital in Virginia and, reading her history, there was note of an old brain injury, to confirm what our neurosurgeon picked up. He saw what looked like previous damage and the bone scaring as well; from where he believed she has had a hole drilled In her scull to likely release pressure from it. That has now been confirmed.

“She was likely lucky to survive her injuries the first time, is what I read. Her doctors in Virginia didn’t think she was going to. She was a broken mess. The x–rays we took here have confirmed everything in the files I’ve read and shared with the team, to understand her medical history. She had multiple broken bones all down her left side, both her legs, and a head wound though…” Casey trailed off.

“Though,” Calvin prompted, when there was silence for 10 or 15 seconds.

That is not something I am at liberty to say. You’d have to talk to her next of kin, and that is Lisa Stevens. I heard Marilyn has got no actual family, just the two children.”

“Has the children’s father been contacted?” he asked, “I’ll fly him in to help look after the children.”

“Again, that is something you’d have to talk to Lisa about. I have no idea, but I’ve not heard mention of the

“Right!” he’d nodded and ended the call.

His one stupid action, because he was so obsessed with her being Marrin, could well have ruined this woman’s life, and not just her livelihood but her ability to raise her own children as well. He didn’t even know how old they were, or if they were boys or girls.”

If the worst–case scenario happened, there wasn’t going to be any mediation, and he was going to be held llable for not only her career earnings for the rest of her life, and who knew how old a writer was when they retired. He tried to find that out and couldn’t. There was no definitive age.

But when he googled it, it looked like most wrote well in to their 80s. The oldest one was reported to be 102. This woman was only in her 30’s and just getting really started. There was no actual retirement plan for authors. It solely depended on what each individual wanted and what their creativity was, how well they sold. So many varying factors it was undeterminable.

That was a lot of money and if her writing was just taking off they could say she’d be expected to earn more In the future as well. He had no idea how to even start the calculation of what it would cost him to keep her to the lifestyle she was accustomed to or expected earnings, but he could well imagine it was going to run

Then there were all her medical bills, and not just from this incident, but all the following bills that would come from it. What if she never fully recovered? He’d be liable for everything up until she died. Have to account for carers and the children in that as well, because if her motor skills declined to the point she

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