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?

find their birth parents? But such matters can't be

happy and fulfilling life and

flicker of something crossed Tarquin's eyes, unnoticed by Elysia, who then excused

emerged moments later,

"Verity's dead?"

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

inte was awash with news of Verity's death, trending

nodded. "Car accident on the road, hit

with the

no leads, leaving it classified as a

wouldn't find it hard to

they would wait. The mastermind behind this

was

origins were far

lamented Verity's death, "This is

is. But she didn't die in vain;

"What about her son?"

come

shouldn't he be coming