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 blood dripped from

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kitchen when

later, they watched Lucian squat beside their mother to hold her wrist in his large hand

froze

you thinking?” he asked

hand on hers. She was at a loss for

wrapped his arms around her waist and lifted her to her feet in an

by the sink

on the faucet and dragged her wrist under the

Lucian ordered, turning his attention to the three children by the door.

children were worried about Roxanne, they nodded when they

a clean handkerchief from

that point, Roxanne had regained sufficient control of her faculties. She tried to jerk her hand out of his while avoiding his gaze. “I can finish up on my

and

felt annoyed at his refusal to let

child with another woman. Essie is watching us

them, Roxanne tried her best to distance herself