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.

wouldn‘t have known how long they needed

pursed her lips and smiled. “This

piped up, “It‘s

was dazed for a few seconds before she made sense of his words. When she realized that he was comforting her, she did not know how to

Aubree. I am to be blamed for this matter. Essie is a wilful child. I did not stop Aubree in time and took proper care of Essie,”

felt a little less guilty after listening to him. She pursed her lips and expressed her gratitude to Lucian,

pick up the torchlight on the ground and said with all seriousness,

not have been able to discover this

because they

was now resting in Cayden‘s arms. “I wonder how Essie is. She was here for so long.

of the way Estella bawled

well. “We can only check her condition when we

seem to have sustained any serious external injuries.

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

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

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