Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem novel Chapter 1518

A figure quickly ducked out of sight, and Dane only caught a glimpse of his retreating form as he vaulted a wall into the neighboring yard.

Dane’s brow tightened. He ran over, shouting, “Thief! Hey, ma’am! Someone just jumped the wall into your yard! You should check it out!”

At the word “thief,” a swarm of townspeople rushed over.

From over the wall, they could hear a woman's angry shouts, a dog's furious barking, and a familiar voice pleading for mercy.

Dane hurried next door, expecting to find a villain after the 'item.' Instead, he found his own friend, Kuban—the same young man he had asked to tend to Lowell’s wounds at the clinic the day before.

Kuban was squatting by the wall, looking at Dane with an exasperated expression. “Dane, what are you yelling about? There’s no thief!”

Dane’s brow was deeply furrowed. Having just learned about the 'item' from Wyatt, he was on high alert. Something so important had drawn Tarquin and Lowell here; it was only a matter of time before the bad guys showed up too.

“Why did you run when you saw me?” Dane demanded.

“I was just trying to mess with you,” Kuban said. “I thought if I jumped the wall, you’d follow. I was going to challenge you to a race, see if you could catch me. But you called me a thief! The lady and her dog are terrifying! I nearly had a heart attack!”

Seeing it was just Kuban, the crowd relaxed and began to chatter.

“You’ve got some nerve blaming Dane! A chase? That’s just foolish. You’re a grown man!”

“Yeah, acting like a five-year-old. That’s something Diaz might do.”

Kuban grinned. “Dane’s had a rough day. I saw he was in a bad mood and just wanted to cheer him up.”

The others just rolled their eyes, dismissed it as nonsense, and began to disperse.

Dane gave Kuban a long, unreadable look before turning to leave.

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