Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 54

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Wil

Wil had let that missing report sit for two weeks and then had Anabell contact both the hospital and police in Virginia in a full legal capacity to get the files, with reference to needing to clarify if Marilyn Riddley was in fact Marrin Reeves.

It was an underhanded, roundabout way of doing it, but both he and Anabell knew Marilyn wasn’t just going to give them what they wanted, after the way Calvin had been. It was legal and above board, but sneaky and underhanded at the same time.

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1 guess having a writer’s mind allowed Marrin to sit and plot and plan it all out, and she had the time to organise it as well.” Anabell chuckled softly. “Her books are full of people moving in the shadows just like

this.”

It’s not funny Anabell.” Wil frowned at her. He didn’t see the funny side to it at all.

“Yes, it is,” she stated, and looked right at him. “Calvin thought he was so smart, and she out maneuvered him with ease. Even if the plane had not crashed, he’d have been left in Italy standing there like an i***t with flowers and an engagement ring ready to propose. And all because he divorced the woman he loved, and she believed he wanted to kick her out of the country. She left as he wanted, just did it on her terms, not his. She even gave him what he wanted without a fight.”

Wil couldn’t even argue with her about it. He had the footage of Marrin at the airport that day. She’d been all

dressed up and looked beautiful even. Calvin had gotten copies of all of it, and after he’d twisted things in his mind, he’d ordered Wil to destroy it all. But Wil hadn’t. He’d kept it for this very day when he found Marrin, and proved his own theory right, that she’d not made that call to Calvin on purpose, just to make him think she

was dead. It was because she didn’t want him to think she was dead.

All he had to do now was write it all up as it was laid out; in chronological order, duplicate it and set things into motion, for what he needed to happen; himself, Liam and Marilyn all in a room together to discuss everything he was going to show them, Wil knew that he could not just hand this information over to Calvin, the man would get on his jet and hunt the woman who was currently likely to be terrified of him and just

make things worse for himself.

Wil was the only one to know everything about Calvin and Marrin and have copies of it all right from the beginning to this moment now. Their marriage contract, the marriage certificate, the divorce papers that she herself had amended by hand, those things she wanted from Calvin. Seeing her personally to the airport and the kiss goodbye, they were her demands, not Calvin’s.

They should help him to convince her that she had loved him, and when he told her why they’d divorced, and he was going to have to, he imagined, she might actually be able to come to understanding Calvin, and

believe he loved Marrin.

Calvin did have a right to be a part of his children’s lives and a simple DNA test would show they were his. Will even knew when they were born now. It was in her medical files, she’d birthed them in the same hospital, where she had recovered from her accident.

Her having amnesia was going to be a big issue for Calvin to deal with, but with all the evidence he had and a proper diagnosis of it and Marilyn’s life having moved on as it had, that should help convince him it was the

The twins were also a concern, and though a DNA test could prove that easily, Calvin had assaulted their mother and not just once but twice. He’d harmed her and put her in the hospital. The boys were going to know this, and that might see them not want anything to do with him. That was going to hurt Calvin. He’d wanted a family with her, had one now and just didn’t know it.

Calvin was her ex–husband and he’d been the one to harm her. It’s likely that very thing was not going to go down so well with her at all, only feed her thoughts on Calvin being an abusive ex and make her not want anything to do with him.

Wil thought he was going to get up and head for Marilyn’s home in Virginia the minute he was allowed to. That Calvin would actively hunt her down. If he’d not already found out where she lived, he could have had his tech team look into it on the quiet, without telling WII.

Wil’s gut told him it wasn’t actually over. Wil just had to pre–empt it and get to Marilyn first and going through her lawyer was the quickest and easiest way, less chance of more charges being laid; only on him this time.

So he compiled everything and attached a letter addressed directly to Liam Stevens and had it couriered over to him. He knew when that man signed for it as well, got a text from the company saying it was delivered.

Careful planning is what was now needed to happen. He did not want Marilyn running with her boys either, like she might now believe she had done once before, to escape from an abusive ex-husband in order to protect herself and her children.

So he played the devil’s hand, offered up mediation without Calvin in one hand and, if that was declined, offered to just hand everything he’d found out over to Calvin himself; to let the chips fall as they may. It was a bluff, but they wouldn’t know that.

He was Calvin’s lawyer, and so it should be seen as he would actually do that, but for now he was offering to try and sort this out without Calvin having to know, until that restraining order was over. An offer and a veiled threat is what it really was. All in order for him to get what he wanted, Marilyn in a room with himself, to try and explain things to her, and maybe see her not be afraid of Calvin, and come to understand him and maybe give the man a fresh chance at proving he wasn’t a brute and did not only love her but want her and the

children in his life to cherish forever.

The romantic in him wanted to fix it all. The lawyer and cynic in him didn’t know if it was at all acheivable.

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