Leaving The Country After Divorce

Chapter 63

At noon both Elias and Sonya stayed at the manor for lunch. Aubree also made up an excuse and stayed.

At the dining table, she put on an attentive act. Not only did she take soup and food for the couple every so often, but she even helped Estella peel prawns that she didn’t eat much herself.

“Here, I remember that you love eating prawns, so I peeled them especially for you, Essie.”

Aubree slid the plate of prawns she had peeled to Estella.

Estella merely lifted her head and glanced at it. Then, she dipped her head again and continued eating the food in her bowl as though she didn’t see anything.

Aubree’s hand was still on the plate, and the smile on her face stiffened slightly.

Some time passed, but still, Estella didn’t touch that plate of prawns at all.

“Essie, why are you not eating the prawns Ms. Pearson peeled especially for you. Besides, you didn’t even thank her,” Sonya chided.

Estella turned a deaf ear to it and continued eating.

Upon seeing that, Sonya frowned slightly, and her voice turned significantly harsher as she said, “Such behavior is exceedingly rude, Essie.”

lifted her head, her eyes

eat

“Don’t be angry, Mrs. Farwell. Perhaps Essie isn’t eating the prawns because she’s

easy with you taking care of her in the future,” Sonya lauded in

cautiously shifted her gaze to Lucian with a somewhat forced smile on her

her son, but her eyes were

gazes, his expression tensed, and he said to Aubree in a clipped

hurt flittered across her face, and she sheepishly took the plate

hurt. She turned and chastised her son, “This

indifferent. “Children should have some

very least, she won’t simply eat food from

beside her gave a cough and seconded. “Lucian is right Essie likes to wander around these few days. No one can afford to take responsibility if she eats something she

then did

work to handle, so he asked them

long while since I last brought Essie out to shop. Essie, I’ll bring you out to buy some beautiful

her son was a man and would inevitably be negligent in that aspect, she would always bring Estella out to buy things favored by little girls every time she

to agree when Aubree came over. “I’ll go with you, Mrs. Farwell. I can also

Sonya agreed with a