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!”

children cried out anxiously as blood dripped from

V

to dash into the kitchen when

beside their mother to hold her wrist

froze

were you thinking?”

hand on hers. She was at a

arms around her waist and lifted her

standing by the sink when

turned on the faucet and dragged her wrist under

ordered, turning his attention to the three children by the

were worried about Roxanne, they nodded when they

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

By that point, Roxanne had regained sufficient control of her faculties. She tried to jerk her hand out of his while avoiding his

frowned and

annoyed at his refusal to

has a child with another woman. Essie is watching us right

eyes on them, Roxanne tried her best