Take Her to HeVan (Nephilim Book 6) by Lucy Kelly Page A

bring a case of jactitation against this Jake O’Brien fellow. If you do, your family lawyer may be able to overturn that clause in your grandfather’s will.”
    “What’s jacti - whatever you said?” asked Marla.
    “Jactitation is the act of marrying someone without their knowledge and consent. We don’t have jactitation laws here in the US. It’s an old English law.
    “Of course, there may be a different impediment to your marriage. Correct me if I’m wrong, but for a moment there, you thought Mr. Darvik here was the married one?”
    “No, you’re right. I did think Karlo might be married because I knew I wasn’t. Or at least I believed I wasn’t, since I wasn’t actually a participant,” she groused.
    “What made you believe Mr. Darvik might be married? It’s not a normal assumption,” he said, pressing her.
    “Oh, well, you see,” she said, stalling and trying to think of something to say and realized she couldn’t lie to the judge, especially since he’d been so nice. “Karlo — um, was in an accident and he’s having some — um, memory issues.”
    “I see. Mr. Darvik, in order to be issued a marriage license, you signed an affidavit swearing you were free to marry. If there is a possibility you could be married, I can’t perform a ceremony for the same reason I couldn’t marry you and Miss Jones today. You’ll need to resolve this situation as well as your fiancée’s.
    “Here’s my card, have your family lawyer contact me. I’d like to follow along and see how this turns out. I’ll help if I can,” he said, standing and passing over his card.
    Both Marla and Karlo understood they were being dismissed in a very nice way. It was time to leave his office. Taking the card, they thanked Judge Davis and left his office. There was another couple waiting by his secretary’s desk. Marla could tell they had also come to get married. In that moment, she didn’t care about Jake and what he’d done. She just realized she and Karlo weren’t getting married and it broke her heart.

Chapter Nine

     
    Becky Anderson Namkin yawned softly and took another sip of her coffee as she made her way to her office. Her Ankida had kept her up late last night and now she was paying for it. Even though she was able to set her own hours, she liked to put in full days for as long as she could. She’d be taking time off after the babies were born. Now that she’d finally admitted she was carrying twins, she was in full planning mode.
    Once she got her computer up, she was checking her emails before she started some serious baby shopping online. She didn’t have anything for the nursery. With the big baby boom, the local stores were all sold out. She was having items shipped in. She had her eye on a particular baby buggy slash stroller.
    She was mindlessly deleting emails that hadn’t been caught and junked by her email software, when an alert from a credit card company caught her eye. All of the Nephilim warriors were given an ID and also an emergency credit card. When they were posted to Earth, they were given a full financial history, including a checking account and regular credit accounts. Those warriors stationed at the gate had their Earth US passports and a card to use if they were stranded or had some other type of emergency. The card had no limit, so if they wound up on the other side of the world, they wouldn’t be stranded for long.
    The alert told her one of those emergency cards had been used. Moments later, she was yelling for her Ankida .
    Ishme came running into the room. “What? Is it the babies? Do you need an ambulance?” he asked her frantically as he ran his hands over her body.
    She couldn’t help it. She started giggling, and he was tickling her.
    “Stop, I’m fine,” she laughed, pushing his hands away.
    “I was worried. Nyal went to the grocery store and he has the van. Maybe we should get a second car just in case of an emergency,” he said.
    “We can get as many vehicles