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.

“That

breathing was slightly

laughter echoed

the elderly couple from across

Elysia were

greet them, “Leander, Odette,

couple beamed and asked Elysia. “What’s

were flushed as she replied,

here in this bitter cold? Go inside before you

moment out here in the snow?

adventure.”

ཀླུ ཟཎྜ ཤུཎྞཌྷ Ł ཁྱཱ ཎྜཱམྦཱཎཱུ ཀྑཱུ རྩ རྫ

as she tried to explain,

they chuckled,

toward the building’s entrance, they continued their banter. “I told you Elysia wasn’t Tarquin’s housekeeper, right? No housekeeper gets that cozy with the man of the house. Look

are they so shy about it, though?”

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

made in heaven.”

Tarquin exchanged a glance, both

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

the one who

Let’s not have a repeat

you mean?”

you.