Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 195

“Beat it. Scram!” Tarquin barked without specifying at whom, snuffing out the cigarette in his hand and striding toward Elijah’s hospital room with his long legs.

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“Tarquin…” Gideon tried to call out, but Lowell cut him off with a timely gesture, his tone neither warm nor cold, “Mr. Bradford, please head on home and get some rest. Tarquin’s got a lot on his mind right now and isn’t in the mood for chitchat.”

Gideon frowned. “How’s Elijah doing, anyway?”

“He’s out of the woods now.”

Hearing this, Gideon let out a relieved sigh.

So did Allegra.

The rest of the Bradfords, however, had mixed expressions.

In the Bradford family, only Gideon didn’t want Elijah to kick the bucket–he still had plans to use the boy to keep the others in line.

The rest of them, though, wouldn’t mind if the sole heir bit the dust sooner rather than later.

There could only be one heir in the Bradford legacy, and Tarquin had only this one son–the sole heir to it

all.

If Elijah were to die, the spot for the heir would be up for grabs, and all their offspring would have a fair

at the

each with more tricks up their

bunch of

Allegra a

back to your house and stay in there till I say otherwise. You’re not to step out without my say–so! Your branch of the family won’t be meddling in company affairs for a while. All

was one thing,

you want, but you can’t take our projects away. We’ve still got Lionel and his father–they can handle the business. Those projects are our livelihood; if you take them away, how are we supposed to live?”

before you acted!

Gideon huffed angrily and left, leaning on his

they hung their heads

sobbing her heart

had cleared out, Lowell’s eyebrows knotted in anger

was shocked to hear today’s news. Allegra had

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unannounced, barging into the room while Elijah was

had triggered Elijah’s condition, causing

or leave promptly, but instead berated Elijah for his lack of respect and manners. She even told Elijah his mother was long

her, Elijah collapsed on

there; otherwise, who knows what might have happened to

Elijah was out of danger, but if anything had happened to him, it wouldn’t just

relation, he might as well