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

kitchen when a tall figure suddenly

their mother to hold her wrist in his large hand with a cold expression on

and Benny froze

thinking?”

at the vast hand on hers. She was at a

her waist and lifted her

standing by the

ill-tempered, Lucian turned on the faucet and

outside,” Lucian ordered, turning his attention to the three children by the

were worried about Roxanne, they nodded when they saw

out a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped it around her injured finger to

regained sufficient control of her faculties. She tried to jerk her hand

and tightened his

his

another woman.

eyes on them, Roxanne tried her best to