Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 41

A New Obsession

Calvin

He was trying to figure it all out inside his mind, how this could have come about, how identical twins could have been separated and come back together in college. Maybe their lives were simply very different. Perhaps one had found a family to adopt her and love her, and the other had just been shunted from one foster home to the other.

Their lives could have been very different, so different that they did not get along, or saw no fit reason to actively be in each other’s lives permanently. They could well know about each other but not consider each other to be family due to one suffering a horrible life and the other not for all he knew. So they had no connection with each other anymore and, therefore, they just didn’t consider either to be their next of kin

Maybe they’d accidently met at college and figured it all out themselves, but they’d had different names, different lives and that was why Marrin never told him about Marilyn. That bothered him though, and quite a bit, they’d been married for three years, and Marrin had never once mentioned anything at all about this Marilyn Riddley; or not until after they’d signed those divorce papers.

Just that one time only as well, and he’d not thought anything of it himself, why would he there was nothing suspicious on the night that she had brought her up.

He couldn’t even really put it down to their divorce, and them going their separate ways, because Marrin had

mentioned that woman’s name and how she’d known her, solely because it had to do with the gift she’d given to Anabell. So likely she’d have mentioned it even if they weren’t getting a divorce. She’d not even really tried. to hide it that day, had told everyone in that room without concern for it that she knew her from college, he’d been right there to hear that himself.

Marrin and Marilyn did actually know each other, he realised, but because of their marriage contract, she’d

simply not see fit to tell him about her was all. He could only think it was because, in all likelihood, she’d

always known there was a divorce pending, so she didn’t ever want to involve him in her sister’s life.

That was all he could think, or her knowing there was a divorce coming, she’d not mentioned the contract

marriage to her sister. Maybe she didn’t want to for fear of her sister judging her, and there was, of course, that she wasn’t actually allowed to tell anyone it was a contract marriage.

He could only think of Marilyn as being Marrin’s identical twin sister, though why would Marilyn then deny knowing Marrin at all? if that was the case, and that was the really weird thing that didn’t make any sense to

him at all.

He shook it off and had to let it go, because he had no actual proof that she was Marrin; so he had to accept

that she was not Marrin as hard as it was to do he had to accept this now. The woman he’d Injured was Marilyn Riddley, from the state of Virginia, an author of fictional romance. Not Marrin Huxley of California as she’d grown up, or Marrin Reeves from Texas, a computer programmer. They were clearly two very different people, even their jobs were so far apart from each other, one was all logic and numbers and the other was all Imagination and fantasy..

Looking at the two women like that, where one was all right–side brain and the other was all left side brain, It was hard to consider them the same person now, that he was thinking clearly about Marilyn, and her not beng Marrin:

A New Obsession

CHME But he couldn’t not think they weren’t related. There was too much circumstantial evidence that pointed to them being related; sisters, twin sisters, in fact. With all of this in his mind, as he drove to the hospital, he realised something else about Marilyn. If she was Marrin’s sister, which he was now 90% convinced of

Then Marilyn Riddley had to be considered as his own next of kin, because he had married her sister, so they were technically extended family to each other. He would have been, at one point, her brother–in–law, could

still on a technicality, be considered that even.

Because he had loved Marrin, had just stupidly divorced her, to enact his own plan to see them come together properly, to have a real marriage and a family, something he’d wanted with her and screwed up royally because he’d not listened to Wil, who’d told him a million times it wasn’t the right way to do things.

But Calvin had been determined to surprise her and prove his love for her. He had wanted to make that grand

gesture, so she wouldn’t misunderstand him. Only to have it all backfire just like Wil had been concerned

about.

Calvin had caused all the mess that he now found himself in, and he had to try and find a way to fix it.

Surely, Marilyn would know where her sister was and could bring her here to him. Though that thought made him frown, if they did know each other, then why hadn’t Marrin turned up already with the news of him assaulting her sister? It was out there all over the internet for all to see, surely Marrin would see it. Was she

It was unlikely anything about him and Marrin would reach her sister in Virginia. They were only well known here in Texas and the industry they’d worked in as well. He highly doubted that Marilyn, being, from what Wil had told him, a bit of a recluse, would be online reading the social or business pages from other states when none of it concerned her, and didn’t have anything to do with her world.

Marrin was logical and analytical minded, using her left–side brain, whereas Marilyn was intuitive and creative and used her right–side brain. Those two women, they ran in two very different worlds; that much he did now actually understand. He’d had all day to try and sort it out and process it in his mind.

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He had to apologise and sit down to talk with Marilyn. Though there was also a chance that maybe Marrin knew what was going on and just hadn’t arrived in the country yet. That would depend on where she lived, or maybe Marilyn had told Marrin not to come at all.

That, though, made him wonder yet again as to why wouldn’t Marilyn put Marrin down as her next of kin? He was thinking about that very thing now, and it dawned on him that Marilyn had had a severe head trauma once before. What if she simply didn’t recall anything, what if she had amnesia herself, and had forgotten her

sister?

He didn’t much like that thought at all, so many women had claimed to be Marrin but hadn’t remembered due to having amnesia, and now here he was thinking that himself. He had to let it go. There could be any number of reasons for those two women not to be in each other’s lives.

Calvin clearly knew nothing about either of them. Or understood their reasons for why they did whatever it was they did. He himself was logical–minded, like Marrin had been, but he was emotionally stunted, or that is what he’d been called once by Wil himself. Analytical not emotional, 90% of the time; it’s why a contract marriage suited him in the first place.

All Calvin knew right this minute was that he was going to need Marilyn’s help, and he had no idea if she would help him at all; if, and, or when, she woke up. He did know her agent, Lisa, and her lawyer, Hamilton, weren’t going to like him showing up at the hospital, and they weren’t going to be willing to give him any other information on her either, so he could in fact figure it out. They would just see it as him still being obsessed with her being Marrin.

But he had to try, because what was he going to tell Marrin if her sister never woke up? Because of what he’d done to her! He was responsible for this, and if Marrin did, by some miracle turn up here to see her sister. She could well hate him for the injuries he’d caused to her. It was also unlikely he thought that she would believe that he still loved her, not after this. Not after all he’d done to Marilyn.

Wil had been right in the car that first time. If she was Marrin, how could he expect her to forgive him for doing this to her? If she wasn’t Marrin, how would Marrin feel about what he did to someone that looked just like her? Now he had to contend with thoughts of whether Marilyn was Marrin’s twin sister. How would Marrin feel about what he’d done to her sister, thinking it was her?

He was screwed and he knew it. He’d let his obsession turn dark and get all twisted up inside his mind as well as get the better of him. When he should have just accepted his own mistake, and moved on with his life. As Marrin herself had done, thinking he didn’t love her at all.

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