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.

Tarquin had swallowed his pride and begged Gideon to let him slip that battered old puzzle box into the casket with his father-he thought it was just

he grew older and started putting things together, suspicions crept in. He'd wanted to dig up the grave, just to get that

the background would catch on, so he waited. He told himself he'd grab the puzzle when his parents were finally laid to

his instincts were right. When Kendrick mentioned "puzzle pieces" before he died,

told Tarquin directly-Tarquin was just a boy, too young to protect something so dangerous, and saying too much could've gotten them all killed. Kendrick had to

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

his son's questions as

government team was a mole. Your grandparents didn't

a diversion-handed the virus and the files off to someone trustworthy, someone who could sneak them back home. Meanwhile, your grandma and grandpa stuck around

they never got the chance to tell the authorities what really happened. Something went wrong before

"So all these years, the virus has just been sitting in Border City? And whoever brought

let out a long

they were too scared to act. Or maybe... they didn't

Are you sure about where the virus is?" Tarquin shook his head. "No. First, we need to find out who brought it back home." Both his parents had died overseas-it couldn't

you have any idea who

through his memories, a hazy but oddly familiar face surfacing in

sure. But I have

me and I'll