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.

at Tarquin’s response. Not knowing when he’d

move on with

throwing in the towel, though. She tried reaching out to Tarquin a few more times, but to no

able to cut ties, she couldn’t sort out the kids‘ school registration, and without that, their education was as stuck as a truck in mud.

meant no stable job for her,

was that Elliot and Evan’s lookalike and the mountain of debt he’d saddled

plopped down under a canopy of trees, not wanting to bring her cloud of gloom home to her kids.

sat there, wrestling with her next move, a tot, no more than four or five, bolted across the street like a bat out of hell and

blared, and

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shouts and screams.

trying to scoop up their wild offspring, who was having none of it. The little tyke was throwing a fit and howling at onlookers

himself, smacking his

but the kid was all fists and teeth and growling like an

this and didn’t feel

father, who was so angry and furious. The father’s face flushed red with rage and he raised his palm to smack

eye level with the boy and opened her arms in a gesture of

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