Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 942

Tarquin's Adam's apple bobbed,

"I'm not quite sure either. He'll be back once he's done with everything. Just be a good girl and wait, okay, Baby?"

"Mhm."

Heath came in with a kitten, saying he'd got it from Keith's place.

Tarquin knew it wasn't the one he had gotten for Baby; this one was a gift from Keith.

He didn't expose the truth, instead, he put Baby down to play with the kitten.

With Keith gone, let his gift, this little kitten, keep Baby company.

From now on, this kitten was part of the family too.

The three kids were playing with the kitten in the living room while Tarquin headed to the kitchen.

Elysia was standing at the kitchen doorway, her eyes red with emotion.

There was a touch of being moved, but also a hint of helplessness.

Baby had finally started calling Tarquin "Daddy," which was touching.

But every time Baby mentioned Keith, Elysia felt helpless.

Keith's passing was a wound that wouldn't easily heal.

stroking her hair, trying to start a

to

comfort. A few words and she's

"That's all you, clumsy and

"...Is everything taken

to

earlier, partly to seek answers, partly to

the cabin but thinking of

Elysia's current state eased his

cooking? Where's the

idle, and I wanted to cook something for the kids myself. Are you going back out? Dinner will

if I need to head

then I'll make a

smiled indulgently,

to continue her work, and Tarquin, looking at her back and then at Baby playing

long as his family was safe, everything

catch the mysterious person today, it would be

upstairs to find Elliot

small study, furiously typing away on their

the mysterious person's plane remotely, and Elliot

kids at their computers, he couldn't

of them got this talent

come from good teachers, but if the student is too

Elijah definitely had a knack for this, but he and Elysia were not particularly skilled in this