Leaving The Country After Divorce

Chapter 59

Given that it was Catalina who always tended to Estella, Lucian didn’t have much experience dealing with children and thought his daughter was throwing a fit.

A look of panic flashed in the man’s eyes as he saw the little girl weep, but ultimately, he glared at her sternly.

“Stop crying,” he ordered, thinking he didn’t sound harsh at all.

Yet, he sounded especially fierce in the child’s ears.

With that, Estella began to cry harder. Tears gushed down her ashen cheeks like a river escaping a dam as she broke into an uncontrollable sob.

Lucian’s brows creased at the sight. He didn’t know how to react.

couldn’t watch how cold the man

that how you treat a child? She’s already in tears, and you’re still talking to her like

at the woman’s sudden

little girl into her arms. “There, there, Essie. Don’t cry! You can come over to play whenever you like, okay? I’ll give you my

hands. While coaxing Estella, Roxanne reached out for a piece of tissue and wiped the

stopped crying and buried herself in

her heart wrench, Roxanne held the child tightly and

to see Estella having burst into tears like that, and

help but question. “We’ve never been mean to her! For the past two times she ran away from home, my mommy’s the one who took care of her really well, and we’d play with her too. She has fun playing with us, and she likes us a lot, so why

not expecting to be reproached by two little boys,

didn’t want Estella to be friends with them just because

and let her hang around with us. When someone bullied her at school, we were the ones who helped her. If she