Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 58

“He’s not giving you now but he’ll give it later. And you will know the deals when he gets you to talk about the terms and let you see Elijah.” Gideon said.

Elysia was left utterly baffled. And then her confusion only deepened. For Gideon had suddenly produced a wad of cash and placed it before her.

“Consider this a little token for our first meeting.” He said.

Elysia gaped, “What on earth are you getting at? I have no idea what you’re up to.”

Gideon continued as though he hadn’t heard her, “Let’s keep our little encounter between us for now. I’ll be in touch.”

With that, he stood up and left.

Elysia hurried after him, only to be stopped by his bodyguard. Frantic, she pleaded, “I don’t know him, and I don’t understand anything he said. I can’t take this money! Please, let me

return it to him.”

But the bodyguard remained unmoved, blocking the doorway.

Only when Gideon’s car had pulled away did the bodyguard step aside, then climbed into another car and followed suit.

flummoxed. For now, all she could do was return to the café to count the cash. A whole hundred

to thump out of her chest.

she given so

stranger who’d come to see Elysia, she’d followed along and had been waiting outside. Upon seeing that

came in.

old man want with

her head, “I

He didn’t

toward Blossom, “Look, this is what he gave me.”

shock, “All this cash… Why did he give it to you? You’re not some long–lost granddaughter of his,

Elysia was a foster daughter in the Thorne family.

head, “I told you, since I’ve

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he might be Eliot’s real dad, but I wasn’t sure. A lot has happened since. The old man today, he came because of him.

you’ve come back to hold the man accountable and trying to pay

didn’t reveal his identity. He said that guy would pay me, so he’d give

that