Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 68

Gage made a grab for Elysia with his greasy hands, intent on pulling her into a hug.

Elysia quickly stepped back, her heart pounding. “Touch me again, and I’ll scream for help!”

“Scream? Go ahead,” Gage sneered, a leering grin spreading across his face. “I’d like to see who’d dare stop me. Tonight, if I don’t have my way with you, I’ll eat my hat!”

With those words, Gage lunged at Elysia like a predator.

But as fate would have it, his foot slipped, and he met the floor with a less–than–graceful

thud.

“Fuck!” Gage cursed, wincing in pain.

Seizing the moment, Elysia dashed towards the bathroom door to escape.

soap, hurling it at the back of Elysia’s head. The soap was in a fancy white porcelain bottle, and had Elysia

gasping for breath as she faced Gage. His lustful demeanor was bad

with fury. He had failed

more unattainable she seemed, the more he

Elysia, looking at her as if she were his prey,

life. She had hoped to find help from the hotel staff, but the hallway was eerily deserted. She couldn’t risk leading Gage back

then, a door to one of the private

the door shut behind her. She braced herself against it, panting, “Help! There’s

to

with an exceptional poise about her. Raised in the countryside, she had the pure and unblemished look of a pristine gemstone, untouched by society’s harshness, invoking an

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in. He furrowed his brows. He had come for a meal, and here she was again, after swearing she’d leave

eyes narrowed into

a glance at Tarquin’s expression, Keaton stood up and

but Keaton