Quadruplets Unite: Mother's Words Are Law

“Turn around, go back,” Benjamin said.

“First, tell me what’s going on.”

“It’s that guy, Diesel Parker, the one you asked me about last time. He was the one who hurt Emma.”

“Diesel Parker!” Emmeline and Abel exclaimed in unison.

“Yes, he’s right by the roadside.”

“I’ve finally caught him!” Abel clenched his teeth and turned the car around.

“Abel, what are you doing? Why do you care about him? It’s been so long.” Emmeline worried, but Abel had. already turned the car around.

Sure enough, there was a burly man by the roadside, shirtless with his clothes draped over his shoulder, humming a tune. It really was Diesel.

“You’re wearing your uniform,” Abel reminded Benjamin.

That’s an easy fix,” Benjamin replied, unbuttoning his shirt and baring his arms.

Abel quickly parked the car without killing the engine and said to Emmeline, “Stay in the car.”

Then, he and Benjamin stormed toward Diesel, grabbed the shirt on his shoulders, wrapped it around his head, and unleashed a furious barrage of punches..

Diesel howled in pain and fell to the ground, soon becoming motionless. In just a minute, the fight was over.

Abel and Benjamin quickly got back into the car and raced away, covering a hundred yards in an instant, turning a corner in the darkness.

of shock and

way.” Benjamin smiled. “If

up, he won’t die, will he? He lay motionless in

all been through fights,” Benjamin reassured

Emmeline added. “I saw Diesel in the community garden a

“Are you

it was him. He was acting suspiciously under the magnolia tree with our vice

an unregistered large truck, supposedly for hauling soil for the school. The

be hauling soil for our school? Emmeline asked. “We’re undergoing field

this kind of work every day,” Benjamin explained. “It could be

dropping Benjamin at the entrance of the auto repair shop, Abel drove Emmeline back to Altney

way, he pulled the car to the side

wrong?” Emmeline asked. “Has the alcohol

much at all, and I still have to drive,” Abel replied. “Come sit in

to the

remained silent, simply enjoying each other’s company on

in the night

extended his arm, pulling Emmeline into his embrace, and kissed her on

there was a melancholy that she

off at the community gate, watching her turn the

the other side of

smoked it in silence, and then started

causing any trouble, he

few minutes into the drive, Emmeline’s phone call came