Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1234

Just as Elysia was about to answer, a sharp female voice echoed from the hallway outside.

"I told you, you can't see him, and that's final! Cry all you want, it won't change anything. Those are the rules!"

"I've never dealt with such unreasonable family members. I said he's just in quarantine, not dead already! What's there to cry about?"

"If you waste any more of our time, and we don't find a cure because of it, it'll be on you!"

Another woman's voice broke in, shaky and pleading.

"Today is my child's birthday. She just wants to see her dad, even if it's just from behind the glass. Can't you let us do that?"

"No! How many times do I have to say it—no means no! If you keep pestering me,

I'll have security throw you out! God, you're exhausting!"

Suddenly the woman snapped, and the little girl burst into loud sobs.

Elysia frowned and stepped out into the hallway.

There were three people: two women and a child.

was in her twenties, dressed in a white lab coat-clearly medical

other, about forty, was clutching a five- or six-year-old girl to her chest-a mother and

coming out of the room and immediately shot her a suspicious glare, looking her up

Why are you in the

the older

"Please, have a heart. Let us see her dad, just for a moment. It's her

the glass! We just want to see him, please. We're so worried about him.

clung to her mother's neck, her eyes

want Daddy! I want Daddy! I want Daddy..."

Because the virus was so contagious, he was still in strict isolation. But now that his family knew

hospital's reasoning. She started to explain, "I'm sorry, I'm not a doctor,

records room? Who are you, a reporter?" the young woman

this virus is still classified. If you leak anything,

tried to keep calm. "I'm not a reporter,

interrupted her

are you? Who let you in? What were you

You'd better start talking, or I'm calling the cops right

her, exasperated. Who interrupts people