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His Dark Obsession
Calvin
He was literally having a crisis, it appeared, because he couldn’t even understand himself right at that very moment. He’d called her Marrin because he believed she was Marrin; everything about her to him was Marrin. Yet he’d just stated to Wil she had stolen an identity. Wil, he knew was right, he was unable to comprehend what was going on inside his own mind.
Because he loved and hated that woman at the same time. Everything that Will stated was true as well, regardless of if she was or wasn’t Marrin. He’d harmed that woman, and in public, and it was all caught on film, and it was still out there. Wil had shown it to him on his phone as he sat there in the police station Interview room. Will had requested that they be able to talk before his Interview. Again, the whole mess was blowing up all over the place.
Marilyn Riddley’s fans were in an uproar at what they had seen, and they were now sharing it on all their media outlets. It was no longer something he could just make go away, it was now out of his hands completely, people from all over the country were retweeting and sharing it on every platform out there.
He sat there and read the tweet from Lisa Stevens herself. And then there were now threads from actual
reporters who’d been stationed at the hotel where they were staying, where Lisa herself had questioned, whether his wife was actually dead or had he divorced her? Because he called Marilyn, his ex–wife.
“You have to make a statement about that,” Wil told him. “They need to know the truth, that you and Marrin got divorced.”
“And just how are you going to explain the rest to them? My going to Italy and searching for her, the funeral I held?” Calvin asked.
“Exactly what it was. You gave her that trip as part of the divorce settlement, and were horrified the plane crashed. You were there in the hope that she would be alright. You felt terrible for putting her on the plane, giving her that trip as part of the divorce settlement.”
“The funeral?” Calvin asked.
“Again, the same. She had no family, so it was your duty as her only living kin, ex or not, to give her a funeral and pay your respects to her, when she couldn’t be found.” Wil sighed, “I can get all those details right to see you in a good light. You did nothing wrong, and you were frantic at the time, so that is all alright to be announced.”
“It’s going to bring up a lot of questions,” Calvin murmured, and ones he wasn’t going to want to talk about either, like his reason for divorcing her in the first place. “How are we to explain why we divorced in the first place?” he muttered, he didn’t really want the truth coming out, people were going to judge him on the contact marriage, and then call him insane for divorcing the woman when he’d actually fallen in love with her. but opted to divorce her. They, he didn’t think, would understand his sincerity in the matter.
“Yes, it is, but it was a no–contest divorce. You have your copy of it. We’ll publish it, all bar that back page where she made amendments”
“The reason for divorce?” he asked now.
“Whatever you want it to be. Irreconcilable differences would be your best option without telling the truth of
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the matter. State it was personal, and you don’t want to talk about it,” Wil sighed.
Calvin even knew why the sigh. With all that was going on, they were all going to jump to the conclusion that he was a cruel brute behind closed doors, and everything they’d seen between him and Marrin was a lie, o show for the public only.
“I could tell them, I suppose, that it was a contract marriage, and the period was up,” Calvin mused aloud after a moment’s thought. He didn’t really want that, but that would stop the questions that he didn’t want to
answer.
“Oh, yes, do that,” Wil muttered. “That will look great on your public profile, do wonders for the company as well.” He shook his head. “That stays been you and Marrin, myself… We’ll just say over the last few months of your marriage the two of you drifted apart. Or she wanted a new career, and you said no, so it tore a rift between you two.”
“Oh, so it’s my fault now that we got divorced.” Calvin grated out angrily, and knew the moment he said those words that he shouldn’t have. “Sorry.” He muttered at Will’s almost incredulous look at him. Because it was actually his fault and he did actually know that.
“I do seem to be having an issue with all this right now. Like you said.” He shook his head, because he felt so
very confused right this minute.
“Oh, I know that,” Wil muttered. “The problem is how do we fix it.”
“Who the hell knows, Wil?” Calvin sighed and scrubbed a hand over his face. “Mediation with Ms Riddley, I will need to apologise, and in person. To make it sincere and show I mean it.”
“I’ll see what I can do. But you need to make an official statement here first. The police are not going to release you until you answer their questions. I advise you to be honest, that you were confused. That much I do know. Play that card, not only because it’s your best defense right now, I actually think it’s true. In more ways than one.”
“I’ll be getting charged then?” he asked.
“Yes, though mediation could see it rescinded before it goes to court and then, if that happens, everything will blow over and go away. So yes, apologising is going to be the best option.”
He nodded and stared at Wil for a long moment. “You really don’t think she’s Marrin.”
“I don’t. I also know she’s got a family, children of her own. There was nothing about how old they were or if they were boys or girls. She’s actually never really been in the spotlight before, and doesn’t want to be. Appears to be a bit of a recluse, and as far as I can tell, Marilyn Riddley has never resided in Houston, owned no properties here, not even back then. There’s not even a car registered in her name here in Texas. I dare say the woman has lived all her life in Virginia.”
“Right… that is not going to help my cause, throwing the spotlight on her, so to speak, when it’s som she avoids.” Calvin huffed, he’d royally screwed this one up.
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“No, likely to just make her go back to her home and be even more reclusive,” Wil nodded. “Apologise, be remorseful and think about compensation. You’ll, of course, have to pay for all of Lisa Steven’s medical bills, and Ms Riddley’s as well. Though from all the reports, Miss Riddley was fine.”
“I never meant to grab her hair. I was aiming for her collar. She must have ducked hand, and I got her hair instead.”
down to try and avoid my
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“I can look at the footage and see if that happened,” Wil stated. “The compensation Calvin?”
“I don’t know, I guess half of what they are asking for. Because who known what it will be,” he murmured.
“Alright, we’ll wait on that, see if they produce a number” Wil nodded.
“They will, seeing as who I am. They will come at me with a monetary surn. It will be large, possibly ridiculous In amount.” He’d seen it all before. Even a slight fender–bender saw people out there claiming their car was ridden off in order to get a new one. This would be no different to that, he supposed.
“Send the officers in. I’m calm and ready to talk,” Calvin finally stated, “and I need to get out of here to deal with what is being posted everywhere.”
He made his statement, about yes, he’d gone to the book store because he was curious about the woman that looked like his wife. He wanted to know if it was her. That led him to have to tell the police Marrin wasn’t deceased, that he’d found out after the fact, of the plane crash, she’d never gotten on the plane to Italy at all. So, he was simply trying to find out if she was or wasn’t Marrin, Because he had no idea where she was at all, that they’d divorced and she’d completely vanished. That yes, he’d waited outside the bookstore to talk to her, but she wouldn’t talk to him. That it had unfortunately made him angry. Because she, he’d believed, was in fact Marrin, and she wouldn’t admit to it.
Then he’d had to explain his reasons for his thoughts about believing why she was Marrin, that her
it was
all handwriting was the same, the way she smiled, the colour of her eyes, even the perfume she wore, the same as Marrin’s. That he’d not meant to pull her hair, and Wil had actually produced that footage.
It showed she had ducked out of the way of his outstretched arm, and his hand to grab her collar had gotten him a fist full of her hair, that he’d not actually meant to do that, that it was an accident, and he would, of course, apologise to her.
As for Miss Stevens, he’d not meant to injure her at all, he’d simply tried to make her let go of him, and not realised he’d used so much force in shaking her off himself, or that she was so unsteady on her feet. Again, he would apologise and admit he was in the wrong. That he wanted mediation with the women.
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