Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 31

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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.

“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.

“I never meant to grab her hair. I was aiming for her collar. She must have ducked hand, and I got her hair instead.”

“I don’t know, I guess half of what they are asking for. Because who known what it will be,” he murmured.

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