Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1423

Military vehicles led the way, government cars in tow, as Elizabeth made her grand return to Jindale City in a top-of-the-line luxury car.

Even though all that was left of her now was an urn of ashes, she still managed to cause quite a stir across the entire city.

It wasn't just the regular folks and politicians who took notice-every member of Jindale's high society felt the tremor of her arrival.

Elizabeth's name was anything but unfamiliar among the city's elite. After all, her whirlwind romance with Kendrick had been the talk of the town back in the day.

Most of the fancy ladies in the upper crust never liked her. To them, Elizabeth was just a girl from an ordinary background-she didn't have the pedigree, the connections, or the family money. In their eyes, she wasn't even worthy to shine their shoes.

When news first broke about her and Kendrick, no one thought it would last. But then Kendrick turned his back on the entire Bradford family for her, moved overseas, got married, and started a family far from the city's prying eyes.

Suddenly, those same society ladies were green with envy. In their world, love was in even shorter supply than loyalty. The women who'd never known real affection just couldn't stand to see someone else adored so deeply by her husband.

They didn't even bother to get to know Elizabeth. Instead, they joined in with the Bradford family's whispers, spreading rumors that Elizabeth was some kind of manipulative temptress who'd cast a spell on Kendrick.

Then, when Elizabeth and Kendrick were killed in a car accident abroad, the gossip hit a fever pitch.

a pretty face,"

start-Elizabeth was never respectable. Mr. Bradford was bound to run into trouble with her. Guess I

from there: Some said she'd been cheating overseas and was murdered by a jealous wife. Others claimed she was keeping a boy toy who killed her in a rage. A few even whispered that her marriage with Kendrick fell apart after she got involved with a

word for Elizabeth. Not

took over as head of the

loved her? So what if her son's a big shot? She died a

never set foot in the Bradford estate-not in

be

never be recognized

in a car fit for royalty, with military honors and government officials making way. It was the kind sendoff that shook

to its core.

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about her

with their friends, eyes glued

the woman they'd trashed for decades, manage to return with so much honor? Who the heck was

Tarquin held his mother's urn

see her son's house and know the

three-bedroom apartment where she'd