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?

birth parents? But such matters can't

was living a happy and fulfilling life and had a relaxed perspective on

crossed Tarquin's eyes, unnoticed by Elysia, who

moments later,

"Verity's dead?"

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

with news of

accident on the road, hit and killed

with the driver also

called that evening, finding no leads, leaving it classified

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

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

now, was

were far

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

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

"What about her son?"

hasn't come back

shouldn't he be coming