Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem novel Chapter 776

At that moment, Blake Thorne was hiding out in an abandoned high-rise with Daphne and Juliet.

After the thugs took him away that day, he had considered going for a Hail Mary move!

Throw caution to the wind and somehow reach out to the Newsoms for a bailout.

But then, halfway through, someone intercepted them!

This person wasn't just polite to them but also cleared their massive debt back home.

Blake wasn't sure what was happening but seized the moment to claim he had an even bigger debt abroad, wondering if his mysterious benefactor could clear that, too.

Turns out, they did!

Clearly, this person was loaded.

That night, they were whisked away to a mansion so lavish it made their heads spin, and Daphne even got a top-notch doctor to come see her.

The staff called them "sir," "madam," and "miss," treating them with the kind of respect reserved for royalty.

The only catch was that no one would spill the beans about who was behind all this or why.

Late at night, Blake received a text message.

It revealed two things.

One, their mysterious benefactor was filthy rich.

Two, this was all a setup; they were being used for some ulterior motive and would be discarded once they’d served their purpose.

Blake didn't doubt the authenticity of the message.

The wealth was obvious, and as for being used, well, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. The care and the clearing of debts had to have a catch.

So, Blake figured he might as well get something out of it before they were thrown to the wolves.

That's why he, along with his wife and daughter, slipped away from the mansion.

Miraculously, they left without anyone noticing—a stroke of luck, courtesy of Elliot.

Once settled in their new hideout, Blake used the contact given by Elliot, a stranger, to reach out to Gideon.

And so began a game of cat and mouse, with Blake shamelessly extorting money from the Bradfords time and again!

When the final transfer hit, Blake was ecstatic. Greed got the better of him, and he wanted more. Unfortunately, that's when the Bradfords tracked them down.

Blake and Juliet played the victims, claiming they had been kidnapped by loan sharks.

The Bradfords, having their plates full with Tarquin and Elysia, didn't delve into the extortion claim and instead placed them in a villa under heavy guard.