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.

climbed right into the passenger side. She

money, but mainly because he would lock her up at the

was eerily quiet with just the two of them. Elysia sat in the

her for the

would she do when he came to collect?

know she was Tarquin’s wife? How dare he still go after her? Wasn’t he afraid of the Bradfords? Or did he know that Tarquin didn’t care for

of Elysia’s mouth,

from the enemy,

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

uneasy. At

worst, but

word from Tarquin, but Lowell

Lowell got in

not looking good. He hopes we can

instantly. She looked urgently at Lowell and said,

the hospital now, with doctors and nurses around, but the kid’s latched onto you, crying and making

me to the

turned to Tarquin, waiting for a

but his gaze never left Elysia

word

was sharp, cold, and