Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1394

The next morning, after dropping the kids off at school, Tarquin and Elysia headed together to the old town chapel where Elizabeth's ashes were kept.

They'd come to ask the priest about the details and best dates for Elizabeth's burial.

The priest spoke at length, and Elysia listened intently, afraid she might forget something important. She even brought along a notebook, jotting everything down point by point.

When they left, she stopped by a little shop at the foot of the hill and bought stacks of golden paper, stuffing the trunk full.

Each pack held hundreds of sheets. Altogether, she easily had tens of thousands.

Tarquin raised an eyebrow. "What are we going to do with all this?"

Elysia dusted off her hands. "We're going to fold paper boats for Mom."

"Don't they sell them ready-made?" he asked, a little baffled.

gets through. Before folding, you can write their names, a blessing, or even a secret message on

express their longing for those who had passed on-a kind of comfort for the heart. Maybe the dead never truly receive these blessings, maybe they do. But at least it

and Kendrick's deaths were still a deep wound for Tarquin. Every time they spoke of them, Tarquin's mood would sink. Today, he

only a little. She also really wanted to honor Kendrick and Elizabeth, to thank them for bringing Tarquin into the

"We'll ask Elliot, Evan, Emmett, Elijah, and the baby to help too. I bet Mom and Dad will

got it. He didn't say anything, just cupped

wished his parents had lived longer. They would have loved Elysia, he was sure

home, not far from the chapel, when

and Tarquin

way,

the preschool. Evan got

stunned. "Is

"But Emmett and Elijah are a little banged up-nothing too serious. The