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Wil
Over the past month, between himself and Anabell, they had managed to piece together everything bit by bit,
the entire timeline of how and when Marrin had changed her name and became Marilyn.
It had started for her the very day after she’d signed the divorce papers, being that she was so good at researching herself she’d found out and managed to organise the changing of her name to Marilyn Riddley,
who was or had been her pen name for her writing career, that no one had known about.
She’d had six weeks to gather everything in duplicate or triplicate for all the parties involved that would need to have them for the process to be official. She had even gotten her appointment with a judge to make it all
official in advance, and lined it up for the day she was to get on the plane. Her flight had been in the early morning and her court appointment late in the afternoon.
Marrin had even gone out of her way to do this in a smaller court, local to where Cliffside Manor was and not here in the city. She had on purpose, he thought, avoided any place she might see him on that day. She did not have to announce it in the papers for all to see, as some would have to do; because it was after her
divorce, and she had a legitimate reason to change her name. It wasn’t to hide from anyone.
“She’s smart,” Anabell told him. “Left nothing to chance.” She stated as they stood looking at the pin board with all the information laid out on it in full finally, the timeline in place for everything that had happened.
Marrin had paid cash for everything from the moment she’d left the airport. “She never intended to get on
that plane at all.” Wil sighed a little heavily.
“No, but stayed put and waited for the flight to board, even had her ticket scanned at boarding.” Anabell shook her head. “She made it look as though she intended on getting on that flight.”
Wil could only agree with her because the hire car out of Houston was under Marilyn Riddley’s name and everything in Marrin’s world had been shut down that very afternoon. He was willing to bet she wrote a computer programme for herself, to wipe Marrin Reeves‘ existence from everything. Her bank account had been closed, and she’d actually turned in her passport as Marrin Reeves to the courthouse. It was a part of
the process.
So, someone in the courthouse had accepted it, pretended to process it but then stole it and gave it to some drug dealer to use. He was going to have to report that, so it could be investigated by the courts itself how it
went missing.
He had Marilyn’s accident report and all the photos to go along with it. He also now had her medical records because he’d filed an official missing persons report on Marrin Reeves the day after Marilyn had been secreted away from Calvin. Though he’d not told Calvin that, he had done it as Marrin’s lawyer.
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.
He didn’t know how Calvin was going to handle the truth of everything when Wil laid it all out for him. Her accident and calling him at the time of them over here in the USA hearing about that plane crash, Wil suspected it was to tell him she was alright, not to make him think she was dead.
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
truth.
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.
Then harming Marilyn, who was actually Marrin, all those things Wil had stated in the car after that first attack was right. Marilyn was Marrin’s alter ego and she herself would know when she got all of this that
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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.
Calvin had been buried in work for the past few weeks, but Wil didn’t actually think he’d given up on what he wanted. No, it was likely the man was just sitting back biding his time, until that restraining order was over. He was too quiet for Wil’s liking, but there wasn’t anything he could do about it at this point, Calvin hadn’t once mentioned Marrin or Marilyn’s name over the past few weeks.
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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