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 Roxanne’s

V

the kitchen when a tall figure suddenly

beside their mother to hold her wrist in his large hand

and Benny froze in their

were you thinking?” he asked

stared blankly at the vast hand on hers. She was at a

his arms around her waist and lifted

the sink when she regained

and dragged

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

were worried about Roxanne, they nodded when they saw that she was in good

woman’s hand was clean enough, Lucian took out a clean handkerchief from his pocket

her faculties. She tried to jerk her hand

frowned and

felt annoyed at his refusal to let

woman. Essie

them, Roxanne tried