Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem novel Chapter 1529

Seeing Tarquin, she froze for a second. “Honey?”

Now that her eyes were open, Tarquin responded in a husky voice, “Yeah. Did I wake you?”

As if she hadn’t heard him, Elysia reached out and touched his face. “It really is you. I’m dreaming about you again.” She leaned in and gave him a soft kiss on the lips, then smiled a silly, happy smile, as if she’d just won the lottery.

After her kiss, she closed her eyes again and snuggled into his arms. “Hold me.”

Tarquin’s throat went dry, but he obediently held her tight. Elysia found a comfortable spot in his embrace and fell right back to sleep.

Tarquin was speechless. He thought she was awake, but she had just been dreaming. He fought back his urges, refusing to tease her, and just held her as he closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep with her.

The next morning, Elysia woke up and, midway through a stretch, sensed something was off. There was someone behind her. An arm was wrapped around her waist.

She froze, instantly wide awake, and whipped her head around. Tarquin was watching her, his eyes narrowed in a smile.

Elysia's heart skipped a beat. What was happening? Had she woken up too fast? Or was she still asleep?

She closed her eyes and opened them again. Tarquin was still there.

Elysia quickly reached out to touch him. “Honey?”

“Yeah,” Tarquin replied with a grin.

Her eyes widened. “Is it really you?”

"I'm as real as it gets," he countered with a smirk.

Elysia blinked. “I’m not dreaming, am I?”

Tarquin chuckled and pinched her cheek. “Feel that?”

After a few seconds of stunned silence, Elysia shot up in bed. “When did you get back?!”

Tarquin lay on his side, propping his head up with one hand. “In the middle of the night. I didn’t want to wake you.”

A huge smile spread across Elysia’s face, and she threw herself on top of him. “But yesterday you said you didn’t know when you’d be back!”

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