Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 119

Benjamin was taken aback to see her at the maternity ward.

“Ms. Thorne? What brings you here? Feeling unwell?” he asked.

“No, I just came to check on Corbin. Ran into a friend and didn’t get to catch up properly. Now that I’ve got a moment, I thought I’d see how they are.”

“A friend? Where are they?”

“Not sure. Couldn’t find them.”

“What’s your friend’s name? I’ll ask around for you.”

“Zane.”

Benjamin took it upon himself to get the information. After all, he was a shareholder of the hospital.

The attending doctor explained, “Zane’s here with his cousin for her termination surgery. There’s a problem with the pregnancy; it can’t be saved. Continuing could be life–threatening.”

Elysia immediately asked, “She looked to be about four or five months along. Why only find out there’s a problem now?”

“It all seemed fine until yesterday. The woman has a peanut allergy but ate a bunch of peanut butter. That endangered the baby.”

Elysia frowned, “Didn’t she know about her allergy?”

“She did. Said she ate something without realizing it contained peanut butter. A real unfortunate

accident.”

chided, “That’s incredibly careless!”

and was adamantly against the procedure, insisting on

term. We had to contact her family out of

brought her in today. She’s been admitted, and the

further, “Has that male relative been accompanying her to

she bring a relative, and it was

see,

her, “You and this Zane

he’s an old classmate and

suspect he’s done

twisted her mouth in awkwardness, “No, they have a solid marriage. I was just asking.

“Alright then.”

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09:41

Tarquin. “I just saw Ms. Thorne

discharged, and Tarquin was at home. He was supposed to go to the office,

teeth, “Whether she’s dead or alive, it’s no concern of mine! Don’t mention her

tossed his phone on the desk, and yanked at his

name

focus on work and went to

had come home late last night. He hated hospitals and insisted on returning home as soon

upset him.

was still sitting by