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.

was gobsmacked at Tarquin’s response. Not knowing when he’d return meant

on with her kids

a few more times, but to no avail. Dejected, she left the Royal Community with a heavy

out the kids‘ school registration, and without that, their

no stable job for her,

that Elliot and Evan’s lookalike and the mountain

she plopped down under a canopy of trees, not wanting

than four or five, bolted across the street

cars screeched, horns blared, and the air was

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shouts and screams.

little tyke was throwing a fit and howling at onlookers and passersby. While he was howling, he was also taking swings at a

smacking his own face and scratching like he

dad finally managed to wrangle him up, but the kid was

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

the boy and opened her arms in a gesture of peace,