Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 99

Marilyn

The boys had learned from Anabell that Calvin lived in a penthouse apartment in the city. Not in a house with a swimming pool, and they’d appeared to be disappointed by this news. She’d shaken her head but Anabell

had gone on to tell them that there was an indoor swimming pool inside the building, along with a proper

gym and a few other things the building featured.

That she thought Calvin lived in what she would call a man’s apartment, it was all tailored to him living there

alone. That it wasn’t set up to have a family live there with him. That he’d been living there for fore they had been born. Those words, though, had gained their undivided attention.

“But mum, didn’t you live in a house by the ocean?” Vin had frowned at her as he seemed to think it through.

“Yes,” she answered them simply.

“That house you’re talking about is Cliffside, and it’s an hour from the city,” Anabell told them. “Calvin lived in the apartment and your mother lived in the house.”

The two boys were back to frowning at her. “I don’t know.” She shrugged it off, as though she still didn’t have

any memories. She still wasn’t certain as to what to tell them about that contract marriage. She also didn’t

want them to be hounding her about meeting him because she recalled who he was.

No, that man had to be held accountable for his actions in Houston, so she was going to hold him to that restraining order, and even then she wasn’t going to tell him she knew that she recalled most of her life with. him. Was going to continue to play at being Marilyn while actually recalling being Marrin, who’d been married

to him.

She wanted to see what his intentions were, where she as Marilyn was concerned. Anabell was of the opinion

that Calvin was going to try and connect with her. Try to create a relationship with her new persona, and try

and get Marilyn to agree to date him. To have what he’d lost all those years ago, once more.

Marilyn was very curious about that. If he actually thought that he could do that, and just how was he going to do it? Considering what he’d done to her; scared and terrified her. Caused harm to come to her. Although she did know he’d not pushed her down the stairs, she’d fallen due to the circumstances of what he’d been

doing.

So, technically, though he’d not done that to her on purpose, it was still considered his fault. How did he think he could get around that or have her forgive him? He knew nothing about Marilyn, and she’d learned over the past few weeks from not only her own memories but from Anabell as well.

That Marrin and Marilyn had not only led two very different lives, that in that last year of their marriage, she as Marrin, had never denied Calvin ánything, something she thought was because she had loved him. A part

of her deep down had hoped he was in love with her as well. It was that part of her that craved to have a family of her own.

That contract marriage with him had given her a glimpse into what having a loving, caring family was like. She’d come to see by being around him and his family, his mother and father, his two sisters; at all those family dinners and birthdays. What having a family was supposed to be like.

Calvin had given her that and on some level Marilyn knew that was why Marrin had developed feelings for

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him. That was how they’d started to grow, spending time with him around his family. Where everyone treated her with respect, and she’d like thern, and they’d liked her, not something she’d ever had before, even he treated her differently, more affectionately around his own family.

Her feelings had gone from that of; he was a nice man, to liking him as a person, and then, in time, she’d just realised she was in love with him, and not just him, but his entire family. It had felt nice to fit in finally, and have that family life she’d craved.

That was the very trap she’d fallen into, the very thing that had seen her wanting a real family for the first

time, and then with Calvin himself, even though she knew it wasn’t going to happen. They had a contract marriage, and she shouldn’t want anything from him at all.

Marilyn sat and watched the boys run about all over the places as they were driven around the the next day, to get a good look around the area. It took half a day to do, as they stopped and got out and looked at many things. The boys were making lists of things they could see they could do here at the different towns

around the lake.

To which her usual response was “How do you think I earn money for you to do all those things you like doing?” It just made them pout at her and tell her they were bored was all.

They got back to their condo and took a stroll about the town of Bigfork itself, got fresh baked goods from the local bakery and just looked about at some of the local stores here. She was going to have to do some serious shopping for that house she’d just bought, she realised as she was looking at local handmade furniture.

A lovely dining set of natural wood that she really liked and so she stopped and talked to the store owner about how long it would take to get something made. The set she was looking at stated display only. He got out a catalogue of previously made wooden dining tables and explained the process to her.

She smiled and nodded, ordered one and put down the deposit right away, and gave him the delivery address. That struck up a conversation, and she told him to just call when it was done she’d fly out for it to be delivered. There was no rush on it and, for the size she wanted and all the chairs, he’d given her a timeframe of a four–to–six–week turnaround. That was fine with her. She could come back closer to Christmas.

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The boys had gone to bed early, told her they were tired and went to their room of their own accord just on 8pm. She’d thought it was a bit odd, but shrugged it off. It had been a long weekend and tomorrow they were on a long flight home again once more.

They stayed until Anabell’s flight took off, 45 minutes ahead of their own scheduled flight. They had to be fitted in and around the regularly scheduled commercial flights. It was an uneventful flight, and they were home by 6pm and as she unlocked the front door for them to go inside, Vincent telling her he was busting to go to the toilet, and both boys were pushed in front of her to get into the house before her.

She shook her head and let them as she turned at the sound of Daniel greeting her and Heath. He told her nothing unusual had happened here at the house. She’d smiled and thanked him for staying, thanked Heath for going out to Montana with her and the boys. And he just nodded and told her they’d head of ather in a few minutes after Daniel was all packed up and Cameron would contact her about the security update for the new house, a place called Castle Rock.

She stepped inside the house and found Callum standing by the coffee table. He waved that phone at her “It needs charging mum.” He stated, and ran off up the stairs with it.

She just shook her head and rolled her eyes a little, muttered “It’s not like it went anywhere.” As she realised that pushing and shoving had been more about getting to the phone to see where their father was. Those two she’d thought would have settled down about looking at it. No such luck on that front. She wondered if they were going to have obsessive tendencies like Calvin did? She didn’t want that, she thought as she put

her suitcase on her bed to unpack it.