Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 13

“Please, just go. I need some alone time.”

Tarquin sighed, knowing he had no choice but to step out for the moment.

As he closed the door behind him, his expression shifted dramatically. He was about to call out for Nola when she suddenly appeared at the foot of the stairs, her eyes red with

emotion.

Seeing him emerge from Elijah’s room, Nola hurried toward him, her concern etched across her face, “Tarquin, how is Elijah doing now?”

Despite his icy demeanor, Tarquin refrained from lashing out. After all, Nola was the one who had saved Elijah’s life. It was Nola who had stumbled upon Elijah, who was abandoned at their doorstep, that gave him a second chance at life

At first, Tarquin had his suspicions.

Was it really just a coincidence that Nola found Elijah? Had she hidden Elijah’s birth mother to get closer to him and orchestrated the whole rescue to win his gratitude?

It was a common plot straight out of a TV drama

indeed a stroke of luck, and she

to fill the void of

only to those closest to him.

heart belonged to Elijah’s birth mother, and he never led Nola

told his son, he didn’t like her.

e was a

noticing the white bandage wrapped around Nola’s arm. “I’m sorry about Elijah

tantrum when he saw me

deeply for Elijah and feigned

him that they would marry. With a cold voice, he said, “No, he’s missing

hearing this, Nola clenched her fists in secret. Both Tarquin and Elijah

was exhilarated, thinking that she

child should not grow up in a single–parent home and offered to marry him- even if only in

bluntly informed her that he was still legally married.

yes, but marriage, no.