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.”

“That’s incredibly

She came alone yesterday and was adamantly against the

had to contact her family out of necessit

been admitted, and the surgery is scheduled for

relative been accompanying her

used to come alone. Only today did she bring a relative, and it was us who contacted

see,

“You and this Zane guy,

and married to my best

suspect he’s done something to betray

“No, they have a solid marriage. I

“Alright then.”

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09:41

Elysia left, Benjamin promptly called Tarquin. “I just saw Ms. Thorne at the maternity ward.”

Tarquin was at home. He was supposed to go to the office, but Elysia had scratched his face,

she’s dead or alive,

phone on the desk, and yanked at his tie in frustration.

name made his

work and went to

hospitals and insisted on returning home as soon as

to upset him. Tarquin brought him

still sitting by the