Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1147

In the morning, after visiting Maria at the hospital, Elysia and Tarquin took Emmett for a somber trip to the funeral home to arrange the details for Claire's funeral the

next day.

Elysia even let Emmett personally select a plot for Claire's final resting place.

On the third day, it was time for Claire's funeral.

Emmett attended as her son, deeply feeling the weight of the moment.

Elysia and Tarquin were there as friends, their presence a silent support.

Pamela and a few of the younger kids came along too.

made their appearance,

together to pay their respects, acknowledging

in gratitude for her contributions to the Gibson

Elysia didn't expect was the arrival

also showed up, their arrival filling the chapel with

they turned to Elysia

all the trouble she caused. It means the world to us," they said,

good person who just fell in with the wrong crowd, especially Cecil, that good-for-nothing," they lamented, their sorrow palpable. Through their stories, Elysia learned of Claire's troubling journey. Claire had fallen hard for Cecil,

high school crush to open courtship, for nearly a decade before they finally became

into disgrace and debt, turning him into a pariah

turned their backs, leaving only Claire by his side, tirelessly working

family with a successfulocal business, had welcomed Cecil with open arms, treating him as their own. But Cecil saw this not as a gesture

exploit.