Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 786

After months of frustration and pouring money into the Thorne family, not to mention the fortune spent on hosting this lavish party, this moment was what I had been waiting for!

"Does she not understand her place, or is she deliberately making Tarquin and us uncomfortable?"

"I think she's here to provoke Daphne on purpose! Honestly, mistresses these days are getting bolder by the minute. The legitimate wife hasn't approached her, yet she's the one making the first move!"

"The one thing wealthy families like ours don't lack is children. Thinking she can elevate her status through an illegitimate child is a miscalculation. The Bradford family certainly doesn't acknowledge that!"

When the conversation shifted to her children, Elysia's temper flared, and she lunged forward, slapping the woman across the face.

"Say one more thing about my children, I dare you!"

The crowd was stunned, and the woman covered her face, sobbing,

"Look at how brazen mistresses are these days! Daring to hit someone in public, oh my goodness..."

"How dare you!"

Gideon, seated in his wheelchair, sneered coldly at Elysia,

"

people, I, on behalf of the Bradford family, declare that even though Tarquin fancies you, we have always sided with righteousness

arm protectively around Elysia's

on, I, Tarquin, have nothing to do with the Bradford family! From now on, we go our separate

crowd was

collectively swallowing

one had anticipated that Tarquin would make

with the Bradfords, he had never left,

circumstances surrounding his parents' deaths and couldn't sever ties since Gideon held his mother's ashes, effectively keeping him bound

strained moments, he had never suggested a complete separation from the

that he would, like his father before him, opt to leave

Bradfords

in addition to the stunned onlookers, his brothers and the Bradfords themselves

then turned his

we are husband and wife in name, we have neither shared a life nor feelings for each other. You were brought into

more frightened

losing Tarquin for the family,