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.

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e replied.

when he’d return meant not knowing when she could get a

on with her kids in tow?

tried reaching out to Tarquin a few more times, but to no avail. Dejected,

school registration, and without that, their education was as stuck as

for her,

then there was that Elliot and Evan’s lookalike and

more Elysia stewed 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

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

cars screeched, horns blared, and the air was filled

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shouts and screams.

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

piece of his mind, he turned on himself, smacking his own face

up, but the kid

feel right. She

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

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

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