Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1428

Let them all see, then. Let everyone witness how Elizabeth entered the cemetery, how she was laid to rest, and how everyone finally accepted that she truly was Kendrick's wife.

At the top of the hill, the group gathered before Kendrick's gravestone.

Soren led the mourners, bowing his head in salute to Kendrick. Like Elizabeth, he was a hero.

Tarquin cradled Elizabeth's urn in his arms, staring at the photo of the handsome man on the headstone. He spoke softly, his voice low and steady, but with a tremor that betrayed his emotion.

"Dad, I brought Mom home."

A gentle breeze swept through the crowd, drying the tears from their eyes. There wasn't a dry eye to be found.

After all their struggles, these two star-crossed lovers were finally reunited.

At exactly ten in the morning-the appointed hour-it was time.

Open the casket.

Kendrick had died young, and had a traditional burial.

His grave wasn't one of those tiny plots you see nowadays. The coffin was old- fashioned, big enough to fit a full-grown man.

dug up that morning, and the

casket. The lid creaked as it came

family broke

urn containing Kendrick's ashes, along with a few

Kendrick and Elizabeth had died overseas. Their bodies had been cremated abroad and

the Bradford family insisted on following the old burial customs, almost as if the bodies

rest of the

Bradfords had

Elizabeth. They'd tried to keep the

in death they tried to erase

from Kendrick's story.

belongs to s

Kendrick while scrubbing out any trace of

to

brow

the priest, he handed Elizabeth's urn to

group in a final prayer for

he rolled up his sleeves and

was going to replace everything in there with things that belonged

day, their

notes so many

was a memory, a

couldn't help but notice small things-signs