Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 116

Calvin

He’d gotten that all–important dad moment out at the car. When seeing off, he’d hunkered down to their level and smiled at them, touched both their faces, and they’d just hugged him without him even having to ask. Both of them at the same time.

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He’d not known if he would get that today; a hug from his boys. But there it was, and they hugged him as tightly as he hugged them. “I love you both.” He murmured softly and leaned back from them a little to look at them. “I never meant for this to happen. For all of us to be apart.” He sighed softly. “I’ll find a way to fix it,” he told them gently.

“To be a real family?” Callum half whispered, and he heard the hope in his son’s voice.

“Yes,” Calvin nodded. “I would really like that,” he told them. Wil and Marilyn were on the other side of the car

chatting about Anabell he could here.

“I might need both your boys‘ help with your mum. Just little things that she likes so I can try and find a way to reconnect with her.” he sighed a little even as they nodded slowly at him, “I was the one that screwed this up, and not just now, but before you were born as well, not her. So, it is me that needs to fix things.” He told. them and stood up and opened the car door for them to get in. He watched as they both climbed up and in and fastened their seatbelts. He smiled at them, and they him “I’ll see both in a few days.” He stated as he

closed the door to their ‘okay‘.

He had two very bouncy, happy boys, and they’d called him dad already. He liked that. They’d gotten into the car and wound the window down, and called out, “Dad, what do you call a fake noodle?”

He shook his head. “I don’t know boys.” He answered with a smile.

“An impasta.” That laughed, and waved goodbye to him as Marilyn drove them away.

“They like jokes a lot.” He heard Wil chuckle.

Calvin could only nod, even as he felt pain touch his chest, everything he wanted was in that car, and he didn’t know if he was going to be able to have it all. That loving, happy family life that he’d wanted. He’d screwed it all up and all he could see right at this moment in time was they would be split family, where the boys would have to go between their mother and himself.

Though even as he stood there watching that car disappear out of sight, he thought that the twins might just help him. He’d heard the hope in Callum’s voice when he’d stated ‘to be a real family‘. It was likely that his boys also wanted that as well. For all of them to live as a family under the one roof.

They’d never gotten to have that and likely knew it was due to their mother having amnesia, and didn’t know who their father was. So, deep down, they wanted that, as much as Marrin herself had once wanted it; growing up inside the foster care system without a real family.

They didn’t even live in the same state, so him just dropping by to see them at the end of the day, or them wanting to see him after school, none of that could happen. There would be no spontaneous dinners out or taking them to see a movie when something they wanted to see hit the theatre’s. Everything was going to have to be pre–arranged weeks in advance. The flight there and back left little time as well, so there would be no bringing them back to Houston, for the weekend, half of the time would be spent on the plane.

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CH 116

He’d not even gotten around to asking them what they wanted for Christmas, or asking Marilyn what he should or couldn’t buy, due to what she’d already bought for them. He sighed heavily that had been part of

his intent today, but it had gone out the window with her bringing the boys to meet him for the first time.

He’d not even really thought it was a possibility that she would do that without a pre-arranged agreement. He’d gotten way–laid by the twins themselves being there. Though she hadn’t seemed to mind at all that he’d focused solely on the boys. Perhaps that was what she was expecting from him, that his focus would go

from her to them. Maybe it was also what she wanted.

“A custody agreement is going to be difficult to work out,” he muttered. “We live too far apart.”

“Not easy,” Wil agreed, “but she’ll be willing to work one out with you from the look of today and that’s a good thing, Calvin. Though it’s likely you’ll have to come out here every other weekend to see them. Maybe arrive on Friday night and get them all of Saturday and half of Sunday, fly back Sunday afternoon.”

“Can you really blame her, Calvin? She loved Marrin, asked about you two starting a family more than once, I

“Mm,” he nodded. “Now we’ve got that only we’re not together anymore.” He sighed. “I should have listened to you, Wil, all those years ago.”

“Yes,” Wil stated, “none of this would have happened if you’d only listened to me, and not even just all those years ago, but also just months ago as well.”

They checked out and were headed home to Houston and an hour later, and it was probably the longest flight he’d ever taken, or that was what it felt like to him, having to leave them in Virginia and knowing this was

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