Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 827

In the countryside where the Tylers lived, not having kids after marriage was a topic of ridicule.

Back in the day, three years into their marriage, Aiden's folks hadn't had a child. This became fodder for gossip among some spiteful neighbors who whispered that the couple must have committed sins in their past lives, hence their barrenness.

Aiden's father, known for his temper, blamed his wife for their childlessness, leading to domestic disputes that were far from rare in their household. Eventually, the couple vanished, rumored to have gone to the city in search of medical help.

Aiden in tow. They paraded him around like a trophy, not just because they'd finally had a child, but a boy at that—and a strikingly handsome one, no less. In their poverty-stricken community where sons

been silenced by his birth now jeered, calling him

past wrongdoing, hence their child's muteness. In their frustration, they even resorted to violence in

walls. Mrs. Tyler recounted, tears in her eyes, how they once found Aiden bound and suspended from the ceiling, being whipped by his father who hurled insults at the boy, calling him a bastard and

as outsiders, the Tylers

sneaking food and medicine to the boy. Then, Ms. Gonzalez, a new teacher, arrived in town. Aiden, not yet of school age but eager