Just One Kiss Before Divorcing Me (Martin and Calvin) novel Chapter 44

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He’d managed to get some information on Marilyn Riddley. He’d talked to one of the doctors that he himself knew at the hospital where Marilyn was staying. He had managed to find out a little bit about this woman, that he now believed was going to be Marrin. He’d made sure not to have them breach any actual patient doctor confidentiality.

Only asked two questions: Where had she gotten all the scars on her body from and how long ago had they occurred. He’d not asked anything personal about her previous medical treatments or any procedures she’d ever had. Nothing about the children either, nothing that would be seen as breaching that confidentiality.

He was certain it was an accident that had caused all her scars. They were all down her left side, so if she’d

been driving a car, and it had rolled over, as he’d suspected all them years ago, but Calvin had dismissed in his anger. She’d have been injured all down her left side, and an accident like that would be public knowledge.

It would have been in the papers of the state of where it had happened, so that was all he was asking of his

friend, so that he could look into it himself, after he found out the when and where. He knew from the

answers to just those two questions he could figure everything else out on his own.

He’d been told after his friend had skimmed through her medical file, that she’d been admitted to a hospital

in Virginia, back in 2017. He’d nodded and thanked his friend, and walked away after that. He didn’t want

them to get into any trouble for divulging information.

Wil knew as he walked away that 2017 was also the year that Marrin had gone missing. He’d left the hospital

to go and research into car accidents in Virginia around the time Marrin had gone missing, and attached Marilyn Riddley’s name to the search as well.

It didn’t take long for it to pop up. There was a car accident and looking at that car in the photo, it was upside down and crumpled; a complete ride–off, its driver’s side door had been removed by the jaws of life, so they could get the victim out, the article read. He could also see the Texas number plates on that vehicle.

He read the date of the accident, and it was the very day that Marrin bad called Calvin’s apartment and stated his name before they’d heard her screaming and the sounds of an accident. There was only one person seriously injured in the accident, that being Marilyn Riddley. All other cars involved had minor damage

and their drivers had minor injuries.

Wil now had a real connection between the two women, and he was certain that his theory all those years

ago was going to be correct, and that Marilyn was in fact Marrin. As he sat at his desk and thought about

that, all she’d really done was add an L and a Y to the middle of her name. If one took them out, the word

Marin was right there to be seen.

He leaned back in his chair and sighed a little, as he thought about that. Marrin, as Marilyn, she’d been an author before leaving Calvin. She’d had a secret life of her own, and a pen name to go with it. He was curious about that. But then she had also let it out of the bag, at his own engagement party.

She had given that book to Anabell and had even signed it, told everyone in that room she actually knew Marilyn Riddley, had gone to college with her even. He was so blind, Marrin had told them all they needed to actually find her after she left, She’d already made the plans, he now realised, to move on with her life.

She had actually gone and legally changed her name to her pen name, something that many famous people did. It would have been granted without much issue, because she already had books published under her pen

name, and so no judge would have said no it was a valid reason for changing one’s name. Though she’d have had to wait until after the divorce was officially finalised.

He thought about that. She was supposed to get on the plane the day after everything was official but hadn’t. She’d walked from that airport and gotten in a cab. He wondered now if she had never actually planned on getting on that plane at all? It was entirely possible; Calvin couldn’t follow her through the airport, nothing past security checks..

Marin, he now thought, had made her own plans. She’d believed that Calvin was trying to get rid of her permanently. Send her from the country and not let her come back. She’d told him as much, and Wil had actually thought she’d truly believed it too.

She had made plans for herself based off of what she thought Calvin was trying to do to her. So she had planned for herself to disappear; her own way. A full name change and been seen to get on the plane. That would if Calvin hadn’t been at the other end in Italy, have them all think she’d left and not come back.

She’d pre–arranged it all; he just knew it, but then she’d likely heard about that plane crash and had a feeling Calvin would have guilt or freak out over him putting her on that flight, and called him only to get into an accident herself at that very moment.

Wil sighed as it all came together inside his mind. He was writing down all his thoughts and connecting all

the dots of what had happened to not only Calvin but Marrin herself. He tracked down the Detective in charge

Wil did just that, explaining that he was trying to get confirmation of whether Marilyn was actually Marrin, to try and help resolve the issues that his client was currently faced with. That officer had thought about it himself and then stated, “It could be possible. Marilyn Riddley’s accident was horrible, and she suffered from a head trauma, and was diagnosed with amnesia by her doctors. She didn’t even recall having the accident,

“No, if you talk to her neurosurgeon or read his report, they were concerned about it happening even before she woke up due to the seriousness of her injuries and I do believe they cracked her skull open in surgery. I had to wait to talk to her myself until she regained consciousness and was moved to a ward.

“She was questioned by myself and more than once over her recovery period, and the nurses and doctors did. multiple memory tests on her hoping she’d eventually recall something, but there was nothing. Not once did she make a mistake or trip up on her own words. She simply just didn’t recall, was all.

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