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

move on with

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

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

stable job for her, and her bank account was

that Elliot and Evan’s lookalike and the mountain

on her problems, the more her head spun. Seeking a moment of solace, she plopped down under a canopy of trees, not wanting to bring her cloud of gloom home to her

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

broke loose as cars screeched, horns blared, and the air was filled with a cacophony

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shouts and screams.

scoop up their wild offspring, who was having none of it. The little tyke was throwing a fit and howling at onlookers and passersby. While he was howling, he was also taking

himself, smacking his own face and scratching like he was trying to claw away invisible

to wrangle him up, but the kid was all fists and

feel

father’s face flushed red

down to eye level with the boy and opened her arms in a gesture of peace, “Hey there, champ. No need to be scared. Come

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