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.”

Estella lifted her head, her eyes brimming with

to eat anything from this evil

Sonya was standing up for her. “Don’t be angry, Mrs.

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

to Lucian with a somewhat forced smile on her

Sonya looked at her son, but her

in a clipped voice, “Essie doesn’t eat food from outsiders. You don’t

that, a flash of hurt flittered across her face, and

seeing that Aubree was hurt. She turned and chastised her son, “This is all on you for

some safety awareness in the first

eat food from

beside her gave a cough and seconded. “Lucian is right Essie likes to wander around these

then did

work to handle, so he asked them about

I last brought Essie out to shop. Essie, I’ll

of her heart. Considering that her son was a man and would inevitably be negligent in

just about to agree when Aubree came over. “I’ll go with you,

agreed with a