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.

he’d return meant

on with her kids in tow?

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

able to cut ties, she couldn’t sort out the kids‘ school registration, and without that, their education was

for her, and her

then there was that Elliot and Evan’s lookalike and

of solace, she plopped down under a canopy of trees, not wanting to

than four or five,

and the air was filled

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shouts and screams.

kid’s parents dashed into the fray, 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 own face and scratching like he was trying to

him up, but the kid was all fists and teeth

this and didn’t feel right. She darted

so angry and furious. The father’s face flushed red with rage and he

she looked toward the boy. She squatted down to eye level with the boy and opened her arms in a gesture