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,

not the time for judgments. Everyone came together to pay their respects, acknowledging the dead's dignity and thanking her for bringing

to come in person, bowing deeply to Claire in gratitude for her contributions to the Gibson

Elysia didn't expect was the arrival

filling the chapel with genuine sorrow.

their tears, they turned to Elysia

doing for Claire, especially after all the trouble she caused. It means the world to us," they said, their

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

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

fallen into disgrace and debt, turning him into a pariah among his

who once adored him disappeared, and his friends turned their backs, leaving only Claire by

arms, treating him as their

exploit.