Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 39

Lowell had been itching to jump out of the car and rescue Elysia, but seeing Gage

knocked out cold, he chilled out.

Peering through the windshield at the disheveled Gage, he couldn’t help but say to Tarquin, That Gage is a real piece of work. I’m embarrassed to even know the guy. What a disgrace!”

Tarquin glanced outside with a flick of his eyelashes and said in a frosty tone,

“If he’s so fond of going au naturel, let him do a streak around Jindale City three times without a stitch on.”

Lowell’s lips twitched at the thought. In this freezing weather, to streak?

Exhilarating.

Serves him right.

If you’re a real man, you don’t mistreat women. What kind of skill is it to use force?

Lowell got out of the car to meet Elysia.

Just as Elysia pushed open the car door and jumped out, frantic to get away, she suddenly saw Lowell and froze.

Having just leaped out of Gage’s car, she was now being forced into Tarquin’s ride.

right into the passenger side. She didn’t want to sit with Tarquin. He irked her!

mainly because he would lock her up at the drop of a hat, which

quiet with just the two of them. Elysia sat in

for the money,

would she do when he came to collect?

still go after her? Wasn’t he afraid of the Bradfords? Or did he know that Tarquin didn’t care for her

flickered at the corner of Elysia’s mouth, her heart pounding.

enemy, no move from

stayed silent as well. She could feel

tingling on her scalp from his stare, restless and uneasy. At this point, she was almost hoping he would say something.

your worst, but say

a word from

punishment, Lowell got in the car

a while ago. Corbin’s awake, and it’s not looking good. He hopes we can bring Ms. Thorne to the hospital as

looked urgently at Lowell and said, “The kid’s sick,

hospital now, with doctors and nurses around, but the

the hospital,

a

but his gaze never left Elysia for a second.

today. Not a word was one thing, but even his looks were

gaze was sharp, cold, and