Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 185

“Elysial” Her eyes reddened with unshed tears as she said, “He’s in a bad place right now! A very bad place!”

Tarquin held his breath, trying to quell the storm rising within him. “What’s wrong

with him?”

“He has no light inside him. No water, no life, and nothing positive or uplifting. Just an endless fog and swirling dust. He’s lying in a desolate wasteland, battered and barely hanging on… He’s not going to make it.”

Tarquin’s head buzzed as though struck by a gong. “What do you mean, hot going to make it? Be clear”

in his mind, he’s not going to make it. When he can’t hold on any longer, in reality… he will…

“He will what?”

“He will die!”

Tarquin gasped, the words hitting him like a ton of bricks.

Elysia continued, “When he loses the will to live and the belief in his spirit, he will lose the desire to continue in reality. He’ll find any way to end it all, and that’s often the outcome for children with severe psychological issues.”

“It can’t be! I told him I had found his birth mother. Shouldn’t he be excited and looking forward to it? Why would he still be so injured?”

you found his mother?”

“Yes.

not believe you, knowing you lied. Or maybe deep down, he feels that as long as his mother isn’t back, she’s not really found, and the search

Terquin was silent.

stayed quiet until an alarm broke the

am, Elijah’s time to wake up,

him earlier, so he needs to sleep a bit

Tarquin said nothing.

else to say. Elijah had been keeping her at arm’s length, preventing her from offering him any psychological counseling, Mental illness wasn’t something that could be cured

After a whi

him when he

awaken, Elysia stood

Elijah and followed

she

scarf from a hook near the

was soft and adorned

Cijah’s

aback. “You called me