Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

When Tarquin showed up unannounced, Verity was in the middle of making chicken soup in her cozy kitchen.

The sight of him nearly made her drop the ladle!

It took her a moment to compose herself, before she managed a smile and asked, "Tarquin, what brings you here?"

Before Tarquin could even respond, she turned to her nanny with a frown, "You didn't think to inform me Tarquin was coming? What kind of manners is that? You're responsible for this oversight!"

The nanny, clearly flustered, replied, "Master Tarquin... I didn't have the chance to tell you."

Tarquin had barged in, and the nanny couldn't stop him or alert Verity in time.

Verity shot the nanny a dark look, prompting her to find an excuse to tidy up the yard, leaving them alone.

Quickly, Verity invited Tarquin to sit down and offered to make him some tea.

"No need, let's just talk," Tarquin said with a cold tone, settling himself on the living room couch.

Verity, her heart racing, poured two cups of chamomile tea.

handed one to Tarquin and took a

see Elysia this afternoon. I even made her and the kids

of us. You're responsible for the death of my parents, and I will never let that go. As for your son... is there

breath hitched, and her eyes

accusation took

few seconds to gather her wits, and she quickly retorted, "Tarquin, you can't just say things like that. You probably don't know, but I was the closest to your parents out of the entire Bradford family. I was the only

teeth, "That just means you were the only one close enough to them

are openly malicious, while

to the

face but ready to stab you

tried to defend herself, but Tarquin wasn't interested in listening to her

seeing the evidence, Verity's

was irrefutable;

young... No, no, it couldn't have been you. It must have been... your grandfather gave this

who would investigate what happened back then. Nobody else cared. And only he had

then suddenly flew out of the country on a private jet this morning. You arranged for him to leave! You made a deal with him; you get him out of the country, and he gives you the

looked at her with a cold expression,

cubs, but he's heartless! He threw me under the