Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 73

CH 73

Wil

That new charity Calvin had created out of nowhere and conveniently not told him about at all, bothered Wil greatly. So much so that he’d put a call in to Kelly and asked her about it. Only to hear her explain it to him logically, the plan for it was sound, and it did look like everything was in order and above board.

Although Calvin donated a lot of money every year to various charities, millions of dollars in fact, he’d never

once expressed a desire of any kind to Wil, about starting his own charitable foundation, nor having one

attached to C.R. Technology either.

Wil considered this move to be out of character for Calvin, though the man hadn’t gone anywhere near the state of Virginia. In fact, all week long, prior to Wil finding out about this charity, Calvin had been in this very building working alongside Kelly and her team to draw up the mission statement, and see what was needed of him and the company legally to open a charity that annexed off his company.

There was, however, one thing that really bothered Wil about this charity. It was aimed at Elementary Schools and to his knowledge Calvin had never once involved himself in schools. Not even the school his niece and nephew attended, so it was very odd and out of character.

The charity, however, Kelly told him would take a while to set up and get running. They had many government rules and regulations to follow, forms to till out and make sure it was all correct legally, that it would take between three and six months of solid planning and paperwork before it was truly official.

That something like this couldn’t just be started on a whim. There had to be a real need for the charity, and a solid investment backer, that many things had to be factored into who got the charity’s funds, and Calvin himself though would be the founder of the charity. He was not going to be the one choosing the elementary school that was allocated every year once it was up and running. The school would have to meet the criteria set by the charity to get the funding.

Though she did mention they’d already secured a small elementary school which would receive all the things that the charity would uphold once it was legitimate. Just to see what it would actually cost and how long it would take to set it all up and sort it out so a timeframe for the charity’s donation could be added to the

programme.

A trial run, so to speak, at the cost of C.R. Technology to help them know what it was actually going to cost for real. From the products, to the shipping and installation, and a tech to teach those that didn’t know who to use it, to use it. That, over the years, the charity would grow, and more schools would benefit as they’d increase the number of schools that got upgrades when larger corporations or wealthy people made donations to the charity through promotional events such as fundraising galas.

It did all appear to be above board, even the PR team were involved and working with the advertising agents to come up with a good logo for the charity so that they could start promoting it. The head of PR had told Wil it would bring good publicity to the company and back to Calvin himself. All Wil could do was nod and agree. Charities were not his legal area of specialty; he was Calvin’s personal attorney, but also C.R. Technology’s head corporate lawyer, where he specialised in law regarding intellectual property, and the drawing up of contracts for business deals and take–overs. But he could also go into a courtroom as a litigation lawyer for the company. These were all the things Calvin himself needed Wil to be able to manage, and so that was

what he did.

But all other aspects of legal needs for the company were managed by the legal department under him. There were many lawyers with different specialties in the legal department. It was normal for such a big

corporation.

Wil had left Calvin and his new–found charity alone since hearing about it, because it had seemed to bel keeping him here inside head office and fully occupied, something Wil needed. He also couldn’t find anything

e miss about it.

That was until he got a call from Liam Stevens a week prior to his meeting with him and Marilyn and along with that phone call came a forwarded email from Liam, and there was a picture of C.R. Technology’s new charity booklet, and he got to hear from Liam and read in that email from Marilyn herself just which school Calvin was going to trial run his new–found Interest.

He nearly fumed inside his office at seeing those words of Marilyn’s, saying that he had lied to them. She believed he’d told Calvin about the twins, and now Calvin was making a move towards the boys. He’d muttered angrily, “I had no idea about it being the boys‘ school. I knew about the charity being set up, Liam. Questioned it myself, Kelly in legal, said it wouldn’t be up and running for three to six months. I have not mentioned anything to Calvin at all, you have my word on that.”

“Then what is going on, William?” Liam had asked directly.

“He’ll get his name dragged through the mud at every turn. I’ll make it out from his behaviour, if he insists she is his ex–wife with no proof, that he was clearly an abusive ex–husband behind closed doors. So, no matter what evidence he provides, he’ll not get access to those boys… but Wil how, if you didn’t tell him, did he know about the twins, and what school they attend? I can only imagine illegally gained knowledge.”

Will sighed heavily because it was likely to be exactly that, but he said nothing, couldn’t because he didn’t actually know what was going on with Calvin.

at that minute. He looked at Calvin, who was on the phone, and then just sent that forwarded amall to him, to Calvin’s office printer and went and collected it. He knew Calvin was watching him move about his office.

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