Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1256

The animals in the dense forest suddenly scattered in all directions, panicked and screeching as if something terrible had just happened.

Birds exploded out of the trees, wings flapping frantically as they shot up toward the sky.

It was like something monstrous had just crashed into the woods-a predator, a disaster, something that sent every living thing running.

Tarquin, Elliot, Evan, and Elijah all frowned in unison, tense and alert.

Even the big guy with the scarred face-usually impossible to rattle-was glancing around warily, brows knit.

Elysia pulled Emmett and Baby close, her whole body stiff with worry.

The air felt charged with danger, every shadow hiding a possible threat.

Suddenly-thwup!

A muffled gunshot echoed through the forest. Someone was using a silencer.

A flash of color tumbled from above-a brilliantly plumed bird dropped out of the sky and landed right at their feet.

kind you'd only see in rare nature documentaries. But its head... its head was just gone. A

eyes wide

burying her face so she didn't

panic written all

the distance. Tarquin's eyes narrowed. "We need

it meant someone else was

a slope covered with tall, wild grass offered the perfect place to

Elysia and the kids behind the grass,

ghost, scrambling up the nearest

to follow-higher ground meant a better

Tarquin asked Elysia, "Do your grandparents

anxious. "They'll shoot rabbits or wild boar to put food on the table, but a bird like that? Never. Grandpa would

little face scrunched up. "And we're really close to their place. Strangers shouldn't be out here, not unless they

someone did wander in by accident, Grandpa and Grandma would find a way to send them back out. They'd

whoever was here, with a gun, was here for all the wrong reasons. Elysia's voice trembled. "Do you think

in camo gear and baseball caps came

picked it up,

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