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 his weeping daughter any

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

at the woman’s

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

with tissues in their hands. While coaxing Estella, Roxanne reached out for a piece of tissue

stopped crying and buried

held the child tightly and

livid to see Estella having burst into tears like that, and they turned

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,

expecting to be reproached by two little boys, Lucian remained stone-faced, not knowing

didn’t want Estella to be friends with them just because he was being considerate, yet they were now blaming him

like her and let 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