Leaving The Country After Divorce

Chapter 81

The three children exchanged glances before putting the Lego pieces down in an unspoken agreement and running into the kitchen.

“What happened, Mommy?” Archie and Benny asked in concern.

Their voices roused Roxanne out of her trance. She felt even more uneasy at the sight of her sons before her. Barely able to suppress her fears, she shook her head and mustered a smile. “It’s nothing,” she said. “The bowl must have slipped out of my hand. Don’t come in. There are broken pieces everywhere.”

With that, she squatted down as if nothing had happened to pick up the pieces, still distracted as she did so.

Lucian’s eyes darkened from behind the three children as he studied the woman on her knees.

I could be imagining it, but this woman does seem to have a lot on her mind.

Roxanne lowered her head. The man’s intense gaze upon her disconcerted her further.

In a momentary lapse of vigilance, her fingers closed around a particularly sharp corner of a shard.

A tingling pain erupting from her fingertips snapped her back to her senses, and she gave an involuntary gasp of pain.

“Mommy!”“Ms. Jarvis!”

as blood dripped from

V

to dash into the kitchen when a

to hold her wrist in his

Benny froze

were you thinking?” he asked

blankly at the vast hand on hers. She

and lifted her

by the sink when she

on the faucet and dragged her wrist under the stream

attention to the three children by the door. “Do not come

worried about Roxanne, they nodded

clean enough, Lucian took out a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped

jerk her hand out of his while

frowned and tightened

at his refusal to

child with another woman. Essie is

on them, Roxanne tried