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!”

cried out anxiously as

V

and Benny were about to dash into the kitchen when a tall figure suddenly stopped

squat beside their mother to hold her wrist in his

froze in their

you thinking?” he asked

at the vast hand on hers. She was at

and lifted her to

standing by the

the faucet and dragged

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

Roxanne, they nodded when they saw

satisfied that the wound on the woman’s hand was clean enough, Lucian took out a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped it around her injured finger to stem

had regained sufficient control of her faculties. She tried to jerk her hand out of his while avoiding his gaze. “I

frowned and

felt annoyed at his refusal to let

woman. Essie is watching

eyes on them, Roxanne