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?

but I had no idea it was over this… Are they all calmed down

Elliot tell them that he’d talk to his dad when he got home, to take good care of himself, and maybe, just maybe, try harder to bring these nine sons into the world.

was in

her drink, and now,

couldn’t believe her ears when she heard the

was ridiculous, exasperating, and yet, somehow, hilarious.

yet so fantastical, their thoughts

thinking of Elijah, her smile froze, and she

colors and life,

Elysia”

Elysia snapped back to reality

reached out to her for a

near the hospital, conveniently where she had just finished delivering

took me forever to find a spot,” Callum said.

been here

the waiter, ordering two cups of coffee before he began apologetically.

that mess with Tarquin, I’m really somy. I’d just gotten back from abroad when Tarquin hit me up asking

never saw it coming, either.”

people, capable of such deceit! She had

way back?” Elysia

“I met him overseas, and I have known

“Weren’t