Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 42

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Marilyn

Her eyes opened as she picked up the sounds of hospital equipment beeping around her. It was not a sound she was likely to ever forget after spending many weeks in a hospital once before. She was also hit with the famillar scent of hospital–grade disinfectant.

Her eyes moved slowly about the room she was in, taking it all in, a room with a fully closed glass door and a nurse sitting out there at the desk beyond the door. She recognised this very room as being one from an ICU ward. It looked much the same as the one she had woken up in, back in Virginia eight years ago. Marilyn sighed to herself as she started to comprehend her situation.

It took almost a full minute before she recalled what had actually happened to her and how she’d come to be here in this very room; the altercation in the stairwell between herself and Calvin Reeves. He’d tried to make

her expose her left side to him, and she tried to stop him, but he’d forced her to in the end.

That right as she’d really tried to yank herself from his grip, while she’d been yelling at him to let go of her, he had let go of her at that exact moment, and she’d stumbled backwards and her right foot had not met with the ground, but had gone down the step directly behind her, unexpectedly.

She had completely lost her balance and, with the effort she had been using to free herself from his grip, and then his sudden releasing of his death–like grip on her wrist and her shirt, had seen her go tumbling down the stairs. She recalled screaming and thinking she needed to protect her head as she fell, recalled the pain of the actual fall as well; where her body had hit the edges of the concrete stairs.

Her hand felt heavy when she lifted it to touch her head as she felt a throbbing headache start inside it. She saw that she had a white cast on her arm, encasing part of her hand and her wrist; it went all the way up. almost to her elbow. That was why it was heavy, she realised.

Her eyes moved to the glass door of the room as it slid open and the nurse she’d seen a moment ago out there at her desk, walked into the room. “You’re awake finally,” she stated as she looked down at her.

“My head hurts.” She managed to get out after a moment of thought

“Alright.” the nurse nodded. “I’m Georgia, your nurse, you’re in the ICU” She was told, Tve just paged your doctor to let him know you’re awake. I’d like to do a set of neuro observations on you. If you’re alright with that, that will involve…”

“I know what they are,” Marilyn stated with a slight nod, and she did. “I’ve had them before.”

Her pupil dilation was checked by the nurse, and the strength of both her arms, though the broken one caused her a bit of pain. But she could grip the nurse’s hand and squeeze it. One leg was all good but the other hurt quite a bit and lifting it was hard.

Georgia smiled at her, happy with her response. “Pretty good, that leg has a swollen knee and a broken ankle, so that’s why it’s difficult for you/To be expected, I would think. Now can you tell me your name?”

“Marilyn Riddley, she answered.

“Age?”

“Mm…” It took her a few seconds to recall it, her mind felt foggy to her, “36,” she finally answered,

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What do you do for a living?” Georgia asked her

Marilyn half smiled at the nurse, “Now there’s some déjà vu huh!” she stated as she felt a complete sense of having done all this before. I’m an Author fantasy romance, and I have twin sons; they are seven.”

Georgia chuckled, “Someone knows the routine.”

“Mm, I’ve been in the ICU before,” Marilyn told her.

“Alright, can you tell me what your pain is, on a scale of one to ten, one being no pain and 10 being the worst pain you’ve ever felt?” she was asked.

“Hmm, it’s not the worst pain I’ve ever felt… The headache is about a seven, and my body,” she thought about that comparing it to the last time she’d been in the ICU. “About a six.”

“Alright, would you like pain relief? The doctor has charted you some PRN.”

7 would. Mostly for my headache though.” Marilyn stated “Can I take this off?” She touched the Hudson

mask she was wearing.

1 think so.” Georgia nodded as she looked at the obs machine. “Your saturation is good 98%, I’ll switch it to nasal prongs for you.” she nodded after taking down all the obs on a chart.

She couldn’t just ask Lisa to take them in, that just wasn’t right. They’d met through the publishing house and though she did consider her a friend, she had no idea if Lisa would want to do something like that. It just wasn’t right to appoint her their guardian.

Both boys had trust funds in their names; she’d put five million into them. The interest had grown over the years and had seen them now be just over eight million, and they would continue to grow, and the boys were to receive them at 18 if something happened to her, but at 25 if nothing happened to her. They were set for life, and she knew it. It was all she could do for them, having no memory of her past.

Everything else she owned was to be split equally between them. All they needed was someone to look after them, an enduring guardian. Her attorney had the power of attorney for her children if something happened to her.

That thought led her to the very reason she was in this hospital, one Mr Calvin Reeves. She had no actual

She closed her eyes and sighed to herself in that room. Did she really want that after all he’d done? Look at where she was because of that man. She didn’t think he was going to be a good or kind person. He appeared to her to be obsessive–compulsive with abusive tendencies.

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