Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 139

CH 139

Marilyn

Calvin followed her right into that stairwell a few seconds after she did, and as she turned to look at him,

about to ask him to just go away. Her surroundings seemed to shift, and her vision blurred, and a full memory of that night they’d had in a stairwell flooded her mind, along with the events that led up to that moment.

At Anabell and Wil’s engagement party, the day they had signed the divorce papers even, the way he’d still been all over her in that apartment, trying to play the loving doting husband, when all she’d wanted was him to stay away from her.

The way he’d followed her from their apartment to the elevator. The only thing different was he’d pulled her into the stairwell that night instead of following her in now. She’d left that apartment without him that night, to go home, just like she’d done just now.

Marilyn looked up at him as he stood staring at her, and she realised that this place, it was the place they’d last had s*x. It was also the day she’d signed the divorce papers. He’d told her as he’d pinned her to the wall, she’d belonged to him. Even after they were divorced, she’d still be his, and then he’d bloody seduced her right here in this fire escape, as if to prove it, that she’d never be able to say no to him. He’d been, for the first time ever, uncaring of where they were or who could have seen them in a position like that.

She turned around and looked at the very spot it had occurred, and then back to Calvin himself, and she watched it register in his expression, that he understood just what was going on, that she was actually remembering that one moment between them right this very second.

Even then, after the papers were signed, he’d not kissed her, had denied her the one thing he knew she

ying to possess wanted, she’d put it right there on the divorce papers, and yet he’d still not kissed her wh

her.

“This,” she stated as something else occurred to her. “Is where the twins were conceived.” She gasped out at him. It could only possibly have been here. She’d been religious about her birth control, had a bloody alarm to make sure she never missed taking it.

But the day he’d turned up at the house and asked for the divorce. That was the day she’d officially stopped taking her birth control, but… she closed her eyes as she saw it, them at the dining room table at Cliffside, and her asking him for a baby. She’d been hesitant in asking him for it, because it was a contract marriage, but he’d once stated after their third anniversary, and they’d just had that.

Calvin had stared at her and then told her there would be no baby inside their marriage, been firm with his words, had repeated himself to her even, just to make sure it was clear to her, she’d left the house after he had and not taken her birth control that day and hadn’t realised it until the following day.

When she’d gone to take it after she’d been handed the divorce papers and had thought what’s the point, we’re over, there is no need to take it anymore, so she’d just put it back in the bathroom cabinet and walked

away.

So, here in this stairwell was the only time they’d had s*x when she was off birth control. Been off it for three days by then, and missing just one could see one get pregnant. Calvin was just standing there staring at her. He didn’t seem to know what to say, or maybe he was trying to let her just recall everything.

O

< CH 139

$8 Foux 2

“We’d already signed the divorce papers, any you… you seduced me right here in this bloody stairwell.

Divorced me and then seduced me on the same day.” Her hand struck his face without much thought,

because it was what she, as Marrin, had wanted to do to him that day. As she’d made her way down all those

stairs, all she could think about was slapping him.

She watched his own hand touch his face where her hand had connected with his cheek, and he took two steps back from her and just stood staring at her. She’d never once in her life hit him, never wanted to hurt the man she’d loved, but as those floodgates opened, on all her pain from those six weeks of her life, leading up to the day she’d vanished, she realised something.

She as Marrin, had wanted to hurt him that day, cause him any kind of pain she could, but never had. It had been a long walk down all those flights of stairs, and though a part of Marrin had been numb, another part of her way down deep inside of her, under all the pain and sadness of her broken heart. She’d really, truly wanted to slap him for seducing her after divorcing her. She recalled slapping herself at one point in that stairwell, for allowing him to have her, had yelled and screamed at herself on the 9th floor landing about how stupid and weak–willed she was.

“I thought there was another woman. You did all of that to me. You ruined us, and all it would have taken, Calvin, was just one kiss, before divorcing me, and I’d have told you I loved you, just one kiss, is all it would have taken, and I’d have torn up that contract and just let myself show you how much I loved you.”

“We can still have that Marilyn, I love you.” Calvin stated “I’m so sorry, I never wanted this. For us to be apart and broken. I just wanted you to see, I truly meant it when I told you I loved you and wanted to marry you,” he sighed.

“No.” Calvin shook his head.

Points

“Do you know why?” she asked in return, and he just stared at her. “Because I didn’t need anything monetary, I didn’t want anything other than your heart. I never cared about your money. I knew how to stand on my own two feet and support myself, learned at a very young age to look after myself, to not need anyone.”

“I know that, Marilyn, it’s one of the reasons I fell in love with you, that you loved me and didn’t care about my money,” Calvin told her.

“So why would you think I needed a grand gesture, and not just one kiss? That would have told me how you felt, because it was the one rule you maintained religiously inside our marriage. I nearly broke it once, and you got up and left the bloody bedroom angry that I dared to try and kiss you. Didn’t come near me for weeks. I knew how you felt about that one rule. So, if you broke it yourself, I would have known it was more than just

a kiss to you.”

“I’m sorry,” he sighed. “I just got it in my head that I wanted to show you how much I loved you. That was all, and I couldn’t be swayed out of it. Wil did try, and did tell me it wasn’t the right way but…”

“Oh, but Calvin Reeves is never wrong,” she stated, full of sarcasm, “Well, now you know you can be.” She muttered and walked away from him down the stairs.

“You’re on the top floor.” He called out after her.

“Yes, just like the last time we were here.” she shot right back and continued on down the stairs. She would walk the floors, all 20 of them, just like last time.

-J

She needed more than a minute to herself, and although she’d been happy, she’d pulle his hair and gotten payback on him for pulling her hair. Now she was just upset with those words. She recalled “it was for mother’s benefit. There will be no baby inside this marriage, I mean it.” Despite she now knew why he’d said it; they’d hurt that day and then the very day after that, he’d come to get that divorce. She’d blamed herself for him doing that. She had thought her words had brought about the end of their marriage, that she had ruined things between them, when she now knew for a fact it was him who had.