Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem novel Chapter 1274

The beam from Tarquin’s flashlight cut through the darkness, and for a split second, he was reminded of a character from an anime.

No-Face.

Yeah, that was it. No-Face.

Except this No-Face had to be at least seven feet tall!

But unlike the quiet, eerie No-Face from the anime, the figure in front of him was growling like a grizzly bear!

Not exactly true to character.

Tarquin had a pretty good guess about what was going on. He pressed his lips together, about to ask when a sudden noise rustled above his head.

He looked up—and nearly dropped his flashlight.

There, hanging upside down from a tree branch, was a ghost!

A ghost, with its face covered in what looked like blood. In fact, its whole body was smeared in red—pretty gruesome at first glance.

Tarquin couldn’t help but roll his eyes a little. After a beat, he called out,

“...Evan, Bernard.”

Evan immediately yanked off the No-Face mask, his eyes wide with curiosity.

“Dad, how’d you know it was us?”

Bernard, meanwhile, leapt down from the branch and whipped off the blood-soaked sheet, peering at Tarquin with the same question,

“Yeah, what gave us away?”

Tarquin didn’t answer right away—he’d noticed a fresh scrape on Bernard’s forehead.

“Bernard, what happened to your head?”

“Got smacked by the old lady!”

Tarquin: “?!”

Bernard explained, “She caught me swiping another bed sheet. Chased me all over the house. If I didn’t come back with a battle scar, she wouldn’t have let it go! She’s tough as nails, that woman.”

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