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.

the passenger side. She didn’t want

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

with Lowell still outside, the car was eerily quiet with just the two of them. Elysia sat in the passenger seat, staring straight ahead, her spine rigid, her mind racing.

be after her for the money,

she do when he came to

he know she was Tarquin’s wife? How dare he still go after her? Wasn’t he afraid

twitch flickered at the corner of

enemy,

well. She could feel his gaze fixed on her unshifting since she had

stare, restless and uneasy. At

but say

word from Tarquin, but Lowell

Lowell got in the car and said to

awake, and it’s not looking good. He hopes we

and said, “The kid’s sick, don’t

now, with doctors and nurses around, but the kid’s latched onto

the hospital,

waiting for a nod before starting

remained silent, but his gaze never left Elysia for a second.

was acting oddly today. Not a word was

sharp,