Chapter 281

Roxanne was about to tell Lucian she could manage to pull herself up when he hugged her even more tightly.

“Don‘t move. Otherwise, it will be difficult for me to climb up.” His voice sounded a little hoarse.

Roxanne felt a brief surge of strange emotion in her chest as she listened to his voice. She stayed still afterward and allowed him to carry her out of the hole.

She broke away from his embrace right after they safely escaped the pit.

“Mrs–Ms. Jarvis, you are so kind to Ms. Estella.” Cayden could not help but say wistfully.

He had been utterly shocked when he saw Roxanne hugging Estella at the bottom of the pit earlier.

Cayden was already surprised that Roxanne was willing to venture deep into the forest in the middle of the night to search for Estella. Unexpectedly, Roxanne even located Estella before

them in the wilderness.

they wouldn‘t have known

her lips and

at her and piped up, “It‘s not

for a few seconds before she made sense of his words. When she realized that he was comforting her,

in anger after she quarreled with Aubree. I am to be blamed for this matter. Essie is a wilful child. I did not stop

him. She pursed her lips and expressed her gratitude to Lucian, “Thank

down to pick up the torchlight on the ground and said with all seriousness, “I should thank you instead. Thank you for locating

Estella first, they might not have been able to discover this pit the latter

in that direction earlier because they coincidentally

resting in Cayden‘s arms. “I wonder how Essie is. She was here for so long. She must be scared out of her wits. She couldn‘t stop crying

ached when she was reminded of the way

as well. “We can only check her condition when we

Estella in his arms, Cayden uttered sympathetically, “Ms. Estella doesn‘t seem to have sustained any serious external injuries. I‘m just afraid

psychological illness to begin with. Cayden was fearful that the unfortunate incident would traumatize her

guess the rest of Cayden‘s unfinished sentence. Their faces darkened at

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