Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 247

Tarquin's actions softened significantly despite his tone.

Lowell, standing off to the side, couldn't help but internally groan at his own awkwardness. "He might as well have been born mute," he thought, "at least then he'd be endearing!"

All because of his "drama queen" remark, after bandaging Elysia up, she didn't even mutter a thank you.

Elysia pouted, ready to continue chopping the stuffing, when suddenly Elijah swiped the knife off the cutting board.

Elysia jumped. "Elijah?"

Without a word, Elijah turned and handed the knife over to Tarquin.

Tarquin frowned, clearly annoyed.

Seeing the situation, Lowell quickly took the kitchen knife from Elijah's hand. "I'll do it."

He then swiftly tied an apron around himself and started chopping the filling for the burgers with a 'thunk thunk thunk'.

Elijah didn't say anything, just turned and went back to his room.

didn't really understand him yet, but it turned out he took the knife from

Elysia's heart, and

"You know, Elijah and Ms. Thorne are really getting along better. It's clear he's quite fond of

Elijah's bedroom door but didn't respond. He shifted his attention back, scrolling through his phone on the

cheerful, continued chopping the filling

room, Elijah was sitting by the window, frowning slightly as he looked

and pulled up a little chair

for caring about

just frowned

raised her hand to pat his head, but Elijah dodged,

mid-air for a few seconds before awkwardly dropping it down, seizing the chance to bond, "Elijah,

confused about regarding your mom, you can ask me. I probably understand your mom's thoughts

for a long while before finally asking,

I'm a mother too. Mothers understand mothers

he had a thousand words to say

be so wary of me. I'm not interested in your dad, and he's not interested in me, so I won't take your mom's place. I care about you because I have three kids of my own. They're about your age and... they look a lot like you. Seeing you reminds me of my own kids, so I really hope you're happy, just like how I want my little ones to be happy every

Elijah remained silent.