Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1433

Elijah's voice was tight with emotion.

"So Grandma and Grandpa left the virus in Border City?"

Elliot looked confused.

"But Border City's our territory. If they already brought the virus and all the files back home, why didn't they hand them over to the government?"

"Didn't the government send a whole team to greet them back then? Why didn't they turn over the virus and the files?"

Tarquin went quiet, deep in thought. Honestly, he didn't know all the details. But one thing he felt sure of the stuff was still in Border City.

Right before his dad passed away, he'd whispered two words to Tarquin: "Puzzle pieces."

Back then, Tarquin was just a kid. He'd thought his dad was reminiscing about their afternoons spent piecing together those thousand-piece jigsaws, sipping cocoa and munching on chocolate chip cookies.

swallowed his pride and begged Gideon to let him slip that battered old puzzle box into the casket with his father-he

years, as he grew older and started putting things together, suspicions crept in. He'd

was afraid the mysterious figure lurking in the background would catch on, so he waited. He told himself he'd grab the puzzle when his parents were finally laid

mentioned "puzzle pieces" before he

just a boy, too young to protect something so dangerous, and saying too much could've gotten them all killed. Kendrick had to keep it cryptic, just in case anyone was listening. Whether Tarquin would figure it all out when he grew up... well, that was just

understood. The torch had been passed to him. Figuring out how to solve this bio-crisis was up

his son's questions

team was a mole. Your grandparents didn't trust them,

to someone trustworthy, someone who could

the chance to tell the authorities what really happened. Something went wrong before

just been sitting in Border City? And whoever brought it back never

let out a

they didn't even realize what they were carrying. Who knows

head. "No. First, we need to find out who brought

you have any idea who it

through his memories, a hazy but oddly

sure. But I have

"Who is it? Tell me