Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 207

The rumor mill was running wild, and by the time it reached the teacher, Mr. Miller, it had morphed into something utterly bizare.

“Mr. Miller, you’ve got to call the principal. Let him have a word with Elliot’s dad. The poor guy’s in a bad way, and he can’t have kids

wnymore…

Mr. Miller was taken aback by the news

While he comforted the little girl, wiping away her tears, he said, “Don’t cry, Shoy Elliot’s dad in a man, and you know, men don’t give birth to babies.”

“But i want Elliot’s dad to have babies! And he needs to have nine of them”

The teacher was puzzled. “Why nine?“.

Because we’re short by nine husbands”

The innocence of children, Mr. Miller thought. When Blossom heard this, she had just taken a sip of her coffee.

And she spat it out! All over the colleague she was gossiping with.

She didn’t even pause to apologize before blurting out, “The schoolgirls want Elliot’s dad to have babies?”

“Yep! That’s the talk of the day. Our little girls have been in tears over it! Didn’t you hear the wails downstairs just now?

this… Are they all calmed down now?

he got home, to take good care of himself, and maybe, just maybe, try harder to bring these

in

choked on her drink, and now, she was dying

her ears when

exasperating, and yet, somehow, hilarious.

so fantastical, their thoughts

thinking of Elijah, her smile froze, and she couldn’t help

most children’s worlds were full of vibrant colors and life, Elijah’s was a

Elysia”

snapped

her. He had reached out to her for a meet–up today, mentioning something

on a coffee shop near the hospital, conveniently where she had just finished delivering lunch to Elijah, making her arrival at

took me forever to

I’ve only been here a minute myself.”

signaled for the waiter, ordering two cups of coffee before he began apologetically. “About

from abroad when Tarquin hit me up asking for a favor. Didn’t think much of it until it was too late.”

never saw it coming, either.”

capable of such deceit! She had him pegged as a man of

and Tarquin go way back?” Elysia asked.

nodded. “I met him overseas, and I have known him

“Weren’t