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

stroke of luck, and

fill the void of maternal affection,

was known only

never led Nola to believe there chance

had told his

e was a

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

quickly reassured him, “It’s nothing, really. I’m just worried about Elijah. He threw a tantrum when he saw me today. Is it because I’ve been away shooting for too long that he became

for Elijah and feigned innocence.

Elijah’s episode was triggered by her telling him that

her fists in secret. Both Tarquin and Elijah longed for the same woman, and it gnawed at her with

thinking that she

Tarquin expressed his desire to repay her, she had suggested that a child should not grow up in a single–parent home and

her that he was still legally married. To marry again would be bigamy.

but marriage, no.