The Quadruplets Are Mine?

“You’ve been sleeping for over two hours; be careful not to have trouble falling asleep tonight!” Abel sat on the roadside and said, “Did you forget our agreement? Today is only the first day.”

Emmeline suddenly remembered Abel’s three rules when he bought the phone for her.

“But I’m right here with you.”

“It doesn’t matter. I will make it a routine to call at 5:30 p.m. to’you every day!”

“You’re really something!” Emmeline pouted. “Whatever floats your boat!”

“Emma, come out and stretch a bit,” Abel said, extinguishing his cigarette and getting up to carry Emmeline out of the car. “We’ll find a county town about an hour ahead, where we can stay overnight and have dinner. We should be home by tomorrow night.”

After a brief rest, Luca took the wheel, and they drove for another hour and a half. At a little past 7 p.m., as the sky grew darker, they finally reached a county town

Abel visually assessed a “park and stay” establishment by the roadside and asked Luca to check it out. Lucal quickly returned, shaking his head, and said, “No good. They have that.”

“It looks quite clean, Emmeline said. “What’s wrong?”

“Don’t ask, you’re too young,” Abel said.

truck, two scantily clad young women came out of the

pressed Emmeline’s head

she had a moment of epiphany. Those two women were not wearing underwear under

and within a few minutes, they reached the end.” They made a U-turn

the third establishment, Luca said, “This one will do.”

of the car to take a look. It seemed to be a

car and said, “Let’s go with this

two standard

clean. It had three large rooms and two rows

plate of lamb. He also wanted to get

Abel said. “We’ll drink to our hearts’ content when we

at Emmeline. “You see that, Emmeline? Your brother is quite bossy!”

Emmeline chuckled. “I’ve

tattoos of oriental dragons and tigers, and were quite loud and rowdy. They stood by the entrance, scanning the entire hall, seemingly

today!” one of the young men with an oriental tiger tattoo on

business is good!” the owner responded as if they all knew each

bill.” He then took Emmeline’s hand and led

walked toward the counter to settle the clearly overpriced bill, cursing silently in his mind.