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.

cold the man was toward

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

the woman’s sudden

quickly strode over to Estella and knelt down to pull the 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 number, so just let me know whenever you’re thinking of dropping by,” she assured

next to them with tissues in their hands. While coaxing Estella, Roxanne reached

little girl slowly stopped crying and

heart wrench, Roxanne held the child tightly and patted her on the

see Estella having burst into tears like that, and

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,

two little boys, Lucian remained stone-faced, not knowing how

want Estella to be friends with them just because he was being

her hang around with us. When someone bullied her at school, we were the ones who helped her. If she can’t be friends with us, she’ll be all on her own! Is that what you want?” Even Benny couldn’t refrain from lashing out