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?

doesn't yearn to find their birth parents? But such

life and had a relaxed perspective

by Elysia, who then excused herself to

emerged moments later,

"Verity's dead?"

with Jessamine all afternoon without a moment to check her phone, only

inte was awash with news of Verity's

the road, hit and

no coincidence, but with the driver also dead, the trail went

that evening, finding no leads,

wasn't surprised. A mastermind wouldn't find it hard to

cold, they would wait. The mastermind behind this would make a move

was on Elysia's biological

were

still lamented Verity's death, "This is so

die in vain;

"What about her son?"

hasn't come back

shouldn't