Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1426

"She's never flirted with any man except Kendrick!"

"She's never done a single thing to betray Kendrick! She's been loyal to him from the very start-not once has she ever strayed!"

"So who the hell are you all to insult her? To curse her? To slander her?!"

Soren's voice shot up, practically echoing off the hillside. He was beyond furious

now.

"If we weren't living in a country of laws, I'd have put a bullet in you all myself!"

“Elizabeth doesn't deserve a spot in the Bradford family cemetery? Go ahead, drag out every Bradford ancestor you've got. Besides Kendrick, which of them can hold a candle to her honor?"

"She's a hero-she sacrificed everything for her country. Which of your precious ancestors ever did something that selfless?"

"Elizabeth joining your family's cemetery? That's your ancestors' privilege, not hers!"

Soren's shout thundered through the foot of the hill, the echoes ringing for ages.

If there really were such things as ghosts, you could bet every last Bradford ancestor was hearing him loud and clear.

frustration burst out all at once. He'd said more in these

toward Jindale City, he'd barely spoken. Even last night, holding vigil for Elizabeth at the old chapel, he hadn't said a word—the words

Tarquin and the others

a woman as kind, upright, and brave as Elizabeth—he

sniveling and shouting at

angry, and she definitely hadn't expected him to hold

Just the

keep her composure, Allegra snapped back, "Hero? Elizabeth,

just seduces men? What's she actually done for anyone? All I've ever seen her

make her out to be some kind of saint because you've got a fancy

just plain corruption! Isn't it

making up stories about Elizabeth because he's got a

Elizabeth is. If she's a hero, I'll personally have her name erased

nodded in agreement, chiming in, "We'll take our names off the family record,

Air Force officer, who'd

until now, finally

you slander a national hero and

s

what she's done is because some things are classified—national security and all

just because it can't be made public doesn't

his life every single day on the border, and