Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem novel Chapter 1424

Is there really such a thing as past lives and reincarnation?

Can people remember their loved ones, their friends, and everything from before?

No one really knows the answer to these questions.

After all, who among the living can know what happens after death?

Elysia shook her head.

“I don’t know, sweetheart. But what I do know is that it’s a way for those left behind to express how much they miss the ones they’ve lost.”

“Doing these things… it helps ease the pain, at least a little.”

“If you keep all that hurt bottled up inside, it’s not good for you. Missing someone so much can really make you sick.”

The little girl tilted her face up, eyes wide and curious.

“Mommy, does everyone die?”

This time, Elysia nodded firmly.

“Growing old, getting sick, dying—it's just part of life. We’re all just visitors here, passing through for a while, and then we move on.”

The little one pressed her lips together, tears brimming in her eyes.

“But what if I don’t want you and Daddy to die? I don’t want to be apart from you and Daddy…”

Elysia quickly knelt down, gently wiping away her daughter’s tears and pulling her into a comforting hug.

“Daddy and I aren’t going anywhere. We’ll always be with you, baby. We’re not leaving you.”

She was still too young to understand the bigger picture, so Elysia just comforted her as best as she could.

The little girl clung to her neck, sobbing softly.

“I… I just think about being apart from you and Daddy and it makes me want to cry. Is Daddy really sad right now?”

Elysia frowned, glancing up the stairs.

He must be. And not just sad—heartbroken.

After what felt like forever, Tarquin came down from upstairs, holding Elizabeth’s urn in his arms.

His eyes were red—he’d clearly been crying.

Elysia’s heart ached for him, but she didn’t say a word. She just gathered the kids and quietly followed behind him, offering silent support.

They cried and yelled, calling on the ancestors of the Bradford family, begging them to open their eyes and see what was happening.

“This is supposed to be the heir to the Bradford family? Look at him! He’s going to destroy everything we’ve built!”

“He sent his own grandfather away, left him stranded overseas, unable to come home, living in misery!”

“He drove his own aunt to her death, and caused her son’s death too!”

“My son Lionel—he died because of him!”

“He kicked us all out of the family estate, left it empty rather than let us live there!”

“And now, without even asking us, he wants to bury that shameless woman—his mother—in our family plot, right next to Hugh!”

“Elizabeth, that woman, what right does she have to be laid to rest in the Bradford family cemetery? Who does she think she is?!”

“Letting her in would be a disgrace to the Bradford family!”

“Oh ancestors, Tarquin’s going to be the end of us! A century of family history, all ruined in his hands!”

“Please, all of you up there, open your eyes! Punish this ungrateful wretch!”

“We can’t let him get his way! No matter what, Elizabeth does NOT belong in the Bradford family plot!”