Marilyn
She was standing by the living room window waiting for the boys to come home from school. She’d stopped working for the day, due to having a headache that was so bad she’d not been able to focus on anything at
all.
The day outside was quite windy, and the trees were blowing relentlessly with it, which brought dappled light in and out of her office, and it was playing havoc with her, causing her not just dizziness, but an ever–increasing headache, She’d had to pull on her sunglasses and leave the studio to return to the house where the overhang of the veranda stopped a lot of the light play changes that affected her.
She’d also had to take something for her headache and sit still for a long while to make that dizziness go away. Though she had gotten up and made herself a cup of tea, and was just holding it now, while waiting for the boys to come home. She watched them get out of the car and look towards her office, across the creek and not see her there.
Then they were just rushing in through the door calling out for her, both their faces lit up with big smiles, they were grinning up at her so big, clearly excited about something. “What makes you two so happy?” she asked.
“The school is getting a big donation.” Callum smiled up at her. “It’s getting all new computers and the latest classroom technology.”
That made her stare at them, a frown on her face. She’d not read anything like that in the monthly update magazine that came home on the last Friday of every month. “From where?” she asked.
“Some big corporation,” Vincent stated, and was then digging into his bag. “Everyone got a thingy about it.” He pulled out a small booklet and held it up to her, and she saw right there on the front of it was the charity’s name and alongside it, a company’s name; C.R. Technology.
She took the booklet and sighed internally as she realised this was Calvin Reeves‘ company. She waved them off to put their bags down, and go get after–school snacks, as she flipped through the pages.
Not only was their school getting all new computers and tablets for every classroom, but they were also getting all new electronic whiteboards and the latest computer programs that benefited the educational needs of the school’s children. The underprivileged children were all going to be getting tablets to take home, and if they didn’t have internet at home, C.R. Technology was going to provide it to them for free for the next
12 months.
It was apparently a new charitable initiative by the CEO and founder, one Calvin Reeves; one lucky primary school per year would see the classroom technology be completely upgraded at no cost to them. She moved her eyes to the boys after snapping a picture of the cover of it, and she handed it back to them. There was no photo of Calvin Reeves in that booklet.
She sent an email of that photo to Liam Stevens and typed a message to go with it “I believe William, Calvin’s lawyer, lied to us, this just came home from school with the boys.” She knew that Liam had vetted Calvin Reeves therefore would know exactly who was now sending things to the school where the twins were
attending.
It took him almost an hour to reply to her email with “We’ll address that in the meeting. William assures me
CHRZ
he’s said nothing, sounded annoyed when I called him directly about this and then sent the picture
She looked at her boys sitting smiling on the couch. They’d taken the booklet back and were going through it. and she knew why. They understood who Calvin Reeves was, the man from Texas who thought she looked like his missing wife. When she sat down with them, they looked up at her. “Can we look him up? Callum
asked.
She wasn’t going to be able to stop it, they could likely just do it from the school if she didn’t allow it. She had no idea when this upgrade at the school was going to happen, or if that man himself was going to turn up. But it was clear to her that he’d found out the boys were his, or maybe had seen a picture of her boys and just presumed they were his.
She didn’t really know which it was, but it was all going to come out, and she had no say in it. Marilyn nodded at them. “I’ll do it.” she murmured and went and got her own laptop. She guessed it wasn’t right to let them
see all the bad stuff that had been written about him around her from their trip to Houston. Doing it herself,
she would be in control of what they saw.
Marilyn made sure all the information they got was about his company. There was, however, a photo of him on there with his bio; that hadn’t been there a few days ago, he’d updated it. Marilyn was betting on the reason why he’d updated his profile. It was so that if the school put it up for them to see, his picture would be right there for the boys to look at. The man was trying to encroach on not only her life but the boys. She
wondered if this was a breach of his contract.
He technically wasn’t here, or bothering her. He was just setting out to upgrade the boy’s school. She wondered what made him think about doing that. Or was he trying to interact with the boys in a roundabout way? That showed them he wasn’t a bad person, that he was not only wealthy, but charitable as well, she
supposed.
She saw them both really look at Calvin Reeves and then two sets of hazel–green eyes were looking right at
her. “That is the man from Houston,” she told them simply.
“The one the nurses were talking about, said you looked like his missing wife,” Callum said, and then turned back to the picture on the screen to really look at him.
“He’s got black hair and green eyes,” Callum murmured, “just like we do.” Again he looked up at her and so did
Vincent.
“I know what he looks like.” she nodded slowly. There was no more being able to deny it. “Are you curious about him? Think he could be your father?” she asked them calmly.
She watched them both turn and look at the picture and then each other. “He’s from Texas, where your old
house was.”
“Yes.” She nodded. “His wife’s name is Marrin.” She told them, “She went missing right around the time I lost
my memories too.”
Marilyn watched as they both stared up at her a little wide–eyed. She had their full and undivided attention now. “I don’t know what to feel about everything boys. Where that man is concerned.. but his lawyer had me run a DNA test on you two against that man” she sighed and reached out to touch their faces; she could see
they wanted to know.
“Calvin Reeves, I just found out a few days ago, is your father. I apparently am or was Marrin Reeves. We’re divorced and have been for 8 years. Apparently, right before the accident happened, his lawyer showed me
the divorce papers.
She watched them go from being attentive, back to looking at his picture, a man who was their father but
had divorced her. “Did he know about us? Did you know about us before the divorce?” Vincent asked her after some time. His voice was small, and she knew he was thinking, that if his father didn’t want them, he didn’t Want to know about it.
honestly don’t recall that. I hope not,” she murmured, and she didn’t want that to be the case. Though Wil had not mentioned anything about it, “I don’t think he would have given you up if he knew. The man..” she shook her head now, how did she explain all she’d heard to them, but also conflicted with her own thoughts
on him.
“Has been searching for Marrin for a long time. He thought I was her… and I guess he was right. That’s why he came at me, he was trying to make me admit that I was his ex–wife Marrin. Only I couldn’t do that.” she shook her head. “Give him what he wanted, because I don’t recall that at all.” she sighed softly.
“So..” Callum frowned up at her. “You are his ex–wife?”
“Yes, apparently so,” she told them truthfully. There was nothing more she could do. They were going to have to know who he was and what he’d done to her as well.
“You got hurt.” Vincent stared up at her. “So did Lisa.”
“I’m aware, there is also a restraining order against him where I am concerned. He can’t come near me at all,” she closed out of the internet and picked up the booklet from the school. “I can only guess he’s found out the truth and not only that, but knows about the two of you and that is why your school is suddenly, out of the blue getting this donation from him.
“It’s likely his way of trying to interact with you two, from a distance, seeing as he can’t come here in person until the middle of December. I don’t know what to do with the knowledge boys to be honest. He’s your father. I understand that, but I have not had a single nice interaction with him since meeting him.”
The boys nodded slowly. “I guess boys, it’ll be up to you what you want to do. Get to know him or not when the time comes to meet him.”
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