Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 188

Tarquin approached, bending down to pick up the lunchbox from the ground without a word, his gaze lingering on Elysia.

Elysia sat on the pavement, tilling her face up at him in surprise when he made no move to help her up.

“Aren’t you going to give me a hand here?” she exclaimed

After all, she had taken a tumble while trying to deliver lunch to his son!

༈ ú གཽ ཇ ཎ ཟ ྃ

Tarquin frowned, hesitating for a moment before extending his hand

His palm faced downwards, clearly not inviting her to grasp it, but rather offering his arm as a support.

What’s with all the caution? She wondered indignantly. Did he think she was some sort of femme fatale?

Elysia’s pride was stung. She ignored the offered anm, instead reaching up to grab his trousers to pull herself up.

Tarquin’s eyes widened in alam, but before he could scold her, Elysia’s footing slipped, sending her crashing towards him.

Her eyes wide with panic, and she instinctively reached for his tie. Just as she grasped it, her heels slid back, and she toppled over

Camed by momentum, Tarquin also fell backwards.

As they both seemed destined to hit the ground, Tarquin’s quick reflexes kicked in. He caught her by the waist and pulled her into his embrace.

gasped, “That

slightly

laughter echoed

was the elderly couple from across the hall.

Elysia were mortified

hard before managing to greet them, “Leander, Odette, good

couple beamed and asked

replied, “You can call me

two doing out here in this bitter cold? Go inside before

when they’re having such a romantic moment out here

adventure.”

ཎྜཱམྦཱཎཱུ ཀྑཱུ རྩ རྫ གྷ ཟྭ

as she tried to explain, “No, you’ve

we’re off,” they chuckled, not waiting for her to

told you Elysia wasn’t Tarquin’s housekeeper, right? No housekeeper gets that cozy with

shy about it,

the early stages of dating. Hot married yet, just sweethearts! Ah, isn’t

made in heaven.”

exchanged a glance, both at a loss

old and their eyesight fades. Don’t overthink it Tarquin finally said-

anything. You’re the one who should stop jumping

have a repeat of this.”

do you

I’m not interested in you. Stop playing these little games around me.”