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.

all at once. He'd said more in these few minutes than he had in the

Elizabeth at the old chapel, he hadn't said a word—the words had all been stuck

and the others this morning, he'd

crowd stirring up trouble-insulting and slandering a woman as kind, upright, and brave as Elizabeth—he just couldn't hold

sniveling and shouting at someone

never seen him this angry, and she definitely hadn't expected him to hold such

district? Just the title alone was

her best to keep her composure, Allegra snapped back, "Hero?

is a hero someone who just seduces men? What's she actually done for anyone? All I've ever seen her do

can't just make her out to be some kind of saint

Isn't it illegal

here can see what's happening-he's just making up stories about Elizabeth because he's got

If she's a hero, I'll personally

other women all nodded in agreement, chiming in, "We'll

Force

until now,

you slander a national hero and a military commander like

s

what she's done is

made public doesn't

day on the border, and you dare slander him? Have you no