Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1373

Axel was quiet for a moment, then took what she handed him.

Blossom immediately added, "Hey, just so you know, I've had that with me since I was a kid. It means a lot to me! Don't you dare lose it! You better give it back when you're done, got it?"

Axel didn't respond. He just slammed the car door shut, started the engine, and drove off.

Cold. Ruthless.

It wasn't until the car was far down the road that he finally glanced in the rearview mirror. Blossom was still standing there, crying her eyes out like a little kid.

He frowned, tore his gaze away, and looked down at the old silver locket in his palm before tucking it into his pocket.

As he was driving away from the ski lodge, he happened to spot those girls who'd been picking on Blossom earlier.

They'd already ditched their ski gear and were just about to leave. Each wore some wild thrift-store jacket, their hair dyed every color of the rainbow, laughing and joking like they didn't have a care in the world. Couldn't have been more than twenty, Axel guessed-kids who'd never had a real taste of how hard life could hit.

A few scruffy boys were hanging around with them, swaggering and loud.

Axel's eyes narrowed. He watched as they piled into their SUV and drove off.

up to them and forced their car over on the side of

and shouting, "What's your

bother with words. He just showed

in the dirt,

girls. "If I did it, you'd be dead. You do

face and a voice so smooth you almost didn't notice how terrifying

be clear, he

remembered Blossom had twisted

snow, bawling her heart out, her face a mess of

gone, tried to comfort her. "Hey, Axel's tough. He'll be fine, trust

take care of him. If

a look at Tarquin. "Where did Axel go,

only answer, "He'll come

word, it meant something. If he said he'd come

was why Tarquin had made him promise before he

read the worry on Tarquin's face, and she knew better than to ask more She hugged Blossom tighter. "Did

back. Don't think the