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?

yearn to find their birth parents? But such

happy and fulfilling life and had a relaxed perspective

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

emerged moments

"Verity's dead?"

Jessamine all afternoon without a moment to check her phone, only now catching up on the

awash with news of Verity's

on the road, hit and

but with the driver also

finding no leads, leaving it

it hard to stage a perfect traffic

the trail gone cold, they would wait. The mastermind behind this would make a

for now, was on Elysia's

origins were far from

thoughts, Elysia still lamented Verity's death, "This is

But she didn't die in vain; bad deeds eventually catch

"What about her son?"

come back

Verity gone, shouldn't