Calvin
He left the hotel with Wil to go and buy a phone, where he just sat in the passenger seat and stared out the window. Everything he’d done had only further ruined his chances of getting closer to Marilyn and their boys.
She’d not seen it as him trying to show her his generous side at all. She only saw it as him looking for a way
to snatch up their boys from her, and take them for himself, likely also thought that would see her come to him, which in all likelihood it would have, though with the police following her.
That had not been his intent or his purpose at all.
He was, still it seemed, ruining everything. She’d stated out right, she’d just up and leave once more, just vanish away and take the boys with her as well. He didn’t want that at all, he wanted for her to get to know him and him to get to know her, Marilyn, a woman that had once been but was no longer Marrin.
Though some part of Marilyn had to have been inside Marrin, for her to change her name to that, Marilyn obviously was the writer side of Marrin, and she’d been doing that before they were divorced, so technically Marilyn was Marrin in some way. He just didn’t know that side of her.
“You’d better not be plotting and planning over there, Calvin.” Wil’s voice interrupted his thoughts.
“I’m not.” He answered simply. “I can’t do anything right where she is concerned.” He finally admitted to himself that he likely knew very little about his wife other than how to please her in the bedroom. And it hurt
is wife
him to say those words out loud.
“Baby steps, Calvin. That is what you need to do, take baby steps, not giant leaps to breach an unknown depth. Tentative baby steps to test the waters is all.”
“She could and will just up and leave like Marrin did,” he muttered.
“Yes,” Wil admitted. “She is Marrin way down deep in the depths of Marilyn, so that is kind of to be expected that they will react the same, huh!”
“I guess so.” Calvin sighed.
“Because you went about this all the wrong way, just like you did back then. When you believed, she’d understand your intent. When she couldn’t possibly do that because you never told her what it was you actually wanted from her. That is where you’re going wrong.”
“She’ll never believe me now, Wil. I’ll be lucky if she’ll let me ever have the boys, even for a day.” Calvin muttered. Knew it to be true because if he was her, he wouldn’t.
“Brought that one on yourself though, now didn’t you? I told you I was working on it and all you had to do was wait.” Wil shook his head.
“I didn’t want to wait. Eight bloody years of waiting.” Calvin huffed.
“Yes, everyone is aware of your impatience, and just where has it gotten you?” Wil asked.
“No where,” Calvin admitted.
“Correct, so now Calvin, we’ll do this my way, her way, and you will learn to have patience, yes?”
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“Do I have a choice right now!” he muttered rhetorically, because he knew the answer was no
“Look at it from her point of view, please Calvin. Stop being selfish and putting yourself first. You do reallea that is all you’ve done right? Never once put Marilyn or the boys first. Perhaps this is Marilyn’s way of getting
you to do that.”
“What do you mean?” Clavin turned and looked at him with a frown. All he’d gotten in that room was she didn’t like him, wanted nothing to do with him and was begrudgingly not going to reissue a new restraining
order.
“Well, she didn’t leave the room now, did she, even when she stood up to do so,” Wil commented.
“Because I begged her not to,” Calvin stated flatly.
“Yes, you did, think about that… you didn’t demand it of her, and you even said please. Now what happened when you did that? I believe she listened Calvin. I think Marilyn is more than reasonable, just has a fear of you and not even you can blame her for that now can you?” Wil pulled the car up in a parking space as Calvin shook his head no.
“Now here you have it, her agreeing again to this, it is another step in the right direction. It should show you she’s willing to work this out and show her you’re going to comply, with her wants and needs to feel safe. In fact, it will I believe, bring about the first steps of building trust between you and her.” Wil smiled at him and got out of the car.
“She can stalk my every move,” Calvin stated, getting out of the car himself.
“Yes and you don’t like it now, do you? How do you think she felt when you stalked her?” Wil chuckled and Calvin frowned at him. “Perhaps Calvin, it’s a little bit of payback on her behalf. She actually knows how it feels, now she can make you feel that. Show you just how uncomfortable that is to know someone is out there tracking you.”
Calvin sighed, it could be for all he knew, “The phone.” He stated, he deserved to feel this uncomfortable, so he would just deal with it.
“It will be in your name, registered to you, and you’ll pay the bills for it. I suggest you buy what you’d get for yourself. Don’t skimp, I dare say it’ll be the boys that have it, not Marilyn.”
“If she actually told them the truth of who I was… Do you really think she did that?” Calvin did wonder about that himself. He honestly didn’t know if she would have or just said it to make him feel guilty even more.
“I believe she did, it’s why she’s doing all of this. She actually wants to know that you’ll not harm them. Is a mother’s instinct to protect her babies and right now you’re a threat. She’s putting things in place for what she knows in the end is inevitable.
“Regardless of the situation, a judge will grant you joint custody in all likelihood. At first, for you, it’s likely to come with restrictions, due to your behavior, but you won’t be denied your rights completely. She’s likely prepping for that very moment already.”
Calvin could only hope so. He selected the latest Samsung Galaxy Z Fold phone and ha then looked at Wil “I can’t call this number, can I?” he asked as they left the store with it.
et up to himself
“No… though if the boys or Marilyn call you, I’d pick up regardless of where you are or what you are doing, don’t ignore it,” Wil told him, “Come on, let’s get coffee and sit and find load the app and set it up to your phone… We’ll put your number and my number in it, in case of an emergency.” Wil smiled at him.
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Clavin frowned. “What emergency?”
“Who knows, but if something happens to Marilyn, the boys will likely want to call you, even if they don’t know you. You are their dad and they know that. Now, they will be able to call you if they need something to say oh
“Look after them if their mother ends up in the hospital. Unlike last time, when they had to stay with Lisa or her lawyer, until she woke up and was moved to the VIP suite. If you’re numbers in there, they can call you.” Calvin nodded, he couldn’t argue with that logic. “Do you think they are close to Lisa or just had to stay with her as a stranger?”
“I honestly don’t know, I could ask if you like.” Wil stated, “I’m certain she will tell me without issue.” Though not even he’d thought about that very question until right this very minute, though now something itched at him as he sat there in the café and sorted out that family app, Wil even let himself be added to it, chuckled and stated “More fun for the boys to track two people, I also move about more than you at times. Off to court and all.”
“Lisa is her next of kin.” He suddenly stated, “I dare say the boys know her.”
“Then they likely get along just fine. She’s probably like an aunt to them.” Wil nodded and leaned back in his chair. “I wonder if I can get them to call me Uncle Wil. I know Anabell will want to be an Aunty to them.” He smiled right at Calvin.
“Getting ahead of yourself there Wil.”
“Ha, I bet I can get an Uncle Wil before you get the word dad.” He heard Wil’s playfully teasing tone and knew he was trying to lighten the mood.
Calvin, however, didn’t really appreciate it, because the man was likely right. Left that alone, “If something does happen to Marilyn, do you think she left them to Lisa in her will?” he asked as the thought of where they would go crossed his mind if something happened to Marilyn, and a feeling of dread filled the pit of his stomach. “She hates me, more than Marilyn does.”
“Agreed.” Wil nodded. “I’ll bring it up with Liam and see if she’ll amend her will to add you as the boy’s father and or legal guardian, now that she knows the truth of who you are. She might have done it already, since getting the DNA results.
“She’s told the boys, so logically speaking, she would know you’d want to raise them, and it’s likely they would want that themselves, if something was to happen.”
“I’d like that in writing, Wil.” He looked at him. “Not that I want anything to happen to her, she’s been through enough. I also don’t want to have to go through the courts with her over something like this. It would likely only see the boys be alienated from me even more,” Calvin sighed. “I have got enough of that already.”
“We’ll try and keep it out of the courtroom. If it’s amicable, Liam and I could sort that out between you her. No courts needed.”
and
phone and stared at the Calvin nodded, that was what he wanted. He logged the phone number into his ov contact name, wondering what to put in? He saw Wil put it in his own phone as Mayn Riddley but that he thought was too impersonal for her and he also believed, as Wil did, the boys would likely have this phone, not herself.
He typed in Cal & Vin, putting it under both boys‘ names so if by some chance his mother or one of his sisters
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saw it, they wouldn’t think anything of it. Likely put it down to a work contact was all.
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