Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 127

Elysia couldn’t quite wrap her head around the situation.

“U thought you were loaded? I mean, your car alone is worth.a fortune, so surely you can afford a decent place. But this… this is pretty rough.”

Tarquin’s expression remained blank as he replied, “I’m broke and going belly up.

“What? You’re broke?” Elysia gasped in disbelief.

“Got a problem with that?”

“No, it’s just… how does someone just go broke overnight? When did this happen?”

“Last night.”

Elysia was speechless.

To avoid exposing his true identity. Tarquin had brought Elysia to this old family home after his son Elijah was discharged from the hospital the previous evening. This was the house his mother had lived in before she moved abroad.-

“How come I can’t see any sign of you being upset about this huge ordeal?” Elysia asked cautiously. Most people would be down in the dumps for a while after such a blow. Some might never get over it.

But looking at him, there was no trace of the grief you’d expect from someone who had just lost everything.

“How do you know I’m not upset?” Tarquin countered.

“I can’t see it.”

“You’re not my close ones, so should I parade my sad feelings in front of you?”

paused, thinking there was some sense in his words. But something inside her twisted, and she found herself offering comfort, “Life’s a roller coaster, you

“Chatterbox.”

to show some

“Don’t need it.”

monologue was less than charitable. He was such an ungrateful jerk and it just served him right for

to the sixth floor and stopped at room

with six floors, and the sixth was the top. There was no

its door was marked with a cheery “Welcome” sign, and the doormat showed

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09:43

Clearly, someone was living

had no such warm greetings and a mat that

what’s your son’s

Bradford, but we just call

your last name is

with a look that hinted at deeper

eyes widened in shock.

him Tarquin,

Tarquin Bradford?!!

larger, Tarquin looked at her with a hint of disdain,

wanted to avoid any idle

swallowed hard, “What… what is your

squinted and didn’t

her head, “It’s not too much to ask what your name is if you let me