Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

"Why are you yelling at the kid? Let's go!"

The officer was about to take them away when Claire suddenly rushed over.

"Where are you taking him? Where are you taking my husband?"

Cecil quickly shouted at Claire,

"They're saying I've been abusing you. Tell the cops right now, have I ever laid a hand on you?!"

Claire paused, subconsciously tugging at her clothes, scared her scars would show.

She shook her head, vigorously,

"No, he's never hit me! Officer, you've got it all wrong!"

Elysia couldn't stand it any longer!

She handed Emmett to Blossom, asking her to take Emmett and Evan back inside.

Once the kids were gone, Elysia confronted Claire in front of the officers,

"If he hasn't hit you, then where did those scars come from? And your daughter's injuries?"

we just

into things? You're protecting him, disregarding your own safety, and even your

not neglecting my daughter! No one

Elysia mercilessly rebuked her,

her isn't love, it's harm! If you truly loved her, you would stay far away from this man! Let him face legal consequences, get justice

a big hospital' is just a scam, he's been fooling

visit, he gambled it all away. That was your

shocked and turned to

Cecil clenched his teeth,

listen to her nonsense. They don't want to give us our son back, they're making up lies to frame me. If

for a

never hit me, he hasn't abused me, and he didn't gamble. Please, let him

the breadwinner of our family. If you take him away,

response. This

still in the hospital, reassured Claire a bit, then took Cecil and Tarquin away. Claire collapsed

our daughter to King City

spare us

belongs to

money, and he won't come after Emmett anymore. Why do you have to

for Emmett, can't you just give him some money?

Emmett, but why can't you to money

spend

to waste another word on her.