Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 181

“Ugh! Word on the street is that when that bold brute was getting all up in Ms. Thorne’s face, she just snapped–went totally bonkers. shouting it was all their doing that pushed her! Then nobody really saw her do anything, and the next thing you know, the bald guy just keeled over. Some of the guys reckon he’d never seen a gal that stunning before, got all hot and bothered, and down he went.”

That explanation didn’t hold water

Tarquin asked, “No toxins in his system?

“None.”

op your friend on him, and let me know if there’s any new intel

“Keep

“Got it”

Hanging up the call. Tarquin lit up a cigarette.

When he’d arrived on the scene today, the guy was sprawled over Elysia, a perfectly healthy man, suddenly turned into a vegetable.

What the hell had Elysia done to him?

No, the real question was how could Elysia–under the watchful eyes of the public–render a fully–grown man comatose in mere minutes?

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She must be something special!

Tarquin was clearly skeptical.

Elysia wasn’t completely useless, but she was definitely not

woman

woman‘ Elysia had just finished dinner

loo and came

check this out–something happened to the Sutton family!”

bottom, debts up to their eyeballs, and were hawking their

no tomorrow.

n Mrs. Sutton

cars and even Mrs. Sutton’s jewelry

town, claiming she’d lost her marbles and jetted off abroad for treatment

stunned. “This

is, but when you think about it, not really. Oriana messed up big time today, royally

Keaton had a

all.

the

money–imagine regular Joes like

steer clear

contact, no

once it was final, she’d be out of this city and far away from certain people.

The next day.

on making breakfast, but the image of Elijah’s tiny frame just wouldn’t leave her

and

reach out to Tarquin Instead, she just camed

food at the door and shoot him a text so he

way, she could avoid seeing him.