Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 18

Lowell had been riding shotgun with Tarquin for years and had a pretty good bead on the guy. He knew the score about Tarquin’s reluctance to sign the divorce papers.

So, when Tarquin brushed off the suggestion of a video call with his estranged wife, Lowell didn’t bat an eyelid. Instead, he just threw out a casual suggestion, “Maybe a video call would convince her more? I’m not sure that Mrs. Bradford will believe the words sent.”

“No need,” Tarquin barked back with a scoff.

Why to waste his breath on someone who’s nothing but a footnote?

So that was Tarquin’s outright refusal.

After all, he was oblivious to the fact that the woman was the very one he’d been searching for high and low.

“And another thing, stop calling her ‘Mrs. Bradford‘. There’s only one lady who deserves that title. Anyone else doesn’t even come close.” Tarquin added.

Lowell bit his tongue. He knew the “lady Tarquin was talking about was none other than Elijah’s biological mother.

“Got

e replied.

Not knowing when he’d return meant not knowing when

move on with her kids in tow?

Tarquin a few more times, but to no avail.

to cut ties, she couldn’t sort out the kids‘ school registration, and without

no stable job for her, and her bank account was running on fumes.

Elliot and Evan’s lookalike and the mountain of debt he’d saddled her with…

solace, she plopped

her next move, a tot, no more than four or five,

cars screeched, horns blared, and the air was filled with a

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shouts and screams.

was throwing a fit and howling at onlookers and passersby. While he was howling, he was

his mind, he turned on himself, smacking his own face and scratching like he

the kid was all fists

didn’t feel right. She

father’s face flushed red with rage and

to eye level with the boy