Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Tarquin flashed a doting smile and ventured, "Have you ever thought about finding your biological parents?"

Elysia sighed deeply.

"When I was a kid, sure, every time I felt slighted by the Thorne family, I'd think about them. I even considered running away to find them!

But I didn't know if I was abandoned or just lost. Too scared to seek them out.

If they had abandoned me, even if I found them, they wouldn't love me.

As I grew up, I stopped thinking about it, especially after having my kids. My life was filled with joy and contentment, my focus shifted to them entirely."

"And if... just if, you got news about them someday, would you consider looking for them?"

Elysia paused for a moment.

"It would depend, really. If they abandoned me, then there's no point in reuniting. I wouldn't bother holding any grudge; just live my life without crossing paths.

But if I was kidnapped, or lost by accident, and they wanted to find me too, then I'd be willing to meet them. After all, I owe my life to them." Who doesn't want to know their origins?

their birth parents? But such matters can't be

fulfilling life and

something crossed Tarquin's eyes, unnoticed by Elysia, who then excused herself to the

moments

"Verity's dead?"

moment to check her phone, only now catching up

awash with news

accident on the road,

accident was surely no coincidence, but with the driver also dead, the trail

called that evening, finding no leads, leaving it classified as a tragic

it hard to stage a

The mastermind behind this would make a

for now, was on Elysia's biological

origins were far

of his thoughts, Elysia still lamented Verity's death, "This

in vain; bad deeds

"What about her son?"

come back

shouldn't