Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1429

Someone had been texting him from a burner number-a bunch of messages, all weird.

"There's a chess set in the coffin. Don't take it out. I put it there."

"If you're worried, check it. The chess set's wooden, totally harmless."

"If you toss it out today, I'll just have to make another one and find a way to slip it in again."

"If you don't want me disturbing their rest, just leave the chess set exactly as it is."

"And one more thing-after you seal the coffin, light a candle for me, okay?"

Tarquin's face was stone cold. He didn't have to guess who sent it. It was the mystery man. Again.

He put his phone away and went to find the chess set.

He opened the box: inside was a hand-carved, wooden chess set. Even the letters on the pieces were scratched in by hand.

The pieces were a little rough, the letters uneven and downright ugly, some even misspelled.

The craftsmanship was nothing to brag about, but the thought behind it was obvious.

Hand-carved-way more meaningful than anything bought off Amazon.

Everyone knew Kendrick loved chess. It was his thing.

the coffin

only cared about money and power. Hobbies like

chess set in hand, silent for a long time. In the end, he put it

it. That

guy coming around

want to see that man again. Accepting

pulled himself together, and started sorting through the rest of the

was searching

looked like it was from another

for. Thank

relief twisted into

he picked up the lunchbox, memories he'd tried to bury

once.

managed to put in his

the box was an

and put back together, over and over is dad had given it

Tarquin was just

to let him put

height of his power. Every little thing about the Bradford family was

his son's wife, so her things

had gathered a bunch of keepsakes from both his parents, wanting to bury

Gideon wouldn't

them in—and he wouldn't give them back,

in front

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