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.

Trouble follows a pretty

Bradford was bound to run into trouble with her.

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.

word for

as head of the Bradford

her son's a big shot? She died a tragedy—the Bradfords never accepted

the Bradford estate-not in

never be

recognized as

now, here she was-coming home in a car fit for royalty, with military honors and

to its core.

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about her

their friends, eyes

needed to know: How on earth did Elizabeth, the woman they'd trashed for decades, manage to return with so much honor? Who the heck was she really, to get a military escort through the

car, Tarquin held his mother's urn as they

show her the home he'd built, to let her see her son's house

modest three-bedroom apartment where she'd