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!”

anxiously as

V

the kitchen when a tall figure suddenly stopped

mother to hold her

and Benny froze in

you thinking?” he asked with

stared blankly at the vast hand on hers. She

waist and lifted her to

by the sink when she regained her

faucet and dragged her wrist under the stream of

turning his attention to the three children by the

the children were worried about Roxanne, they nodded

the wound on the woman’s hand was clean enough, Lucian took out a clean

tried to jerk her hand out of

and tightened his

annoyed at his

another woman. Essie

Roxanne tried her best to distance herself from