Mission To Remarry

Mission To Remarry 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!”

out anxiously as blood

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

her wrist in his large hand with a cold expression on his

Benny froze

were you thinking?” he

at the vast hand on hers. She was at a loss for

around her waist and lifted her to her feet in an

by the sink when she

Lucian turned on the faucet and

Lucian ordered, turning his attention to the three children by

children were worried about Roxanne, they nodded when

on the woman’s hand was clean enough, Lucian took out a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped

of her faculties. She tried to jerk her hand out of his while avoiding his

man frowned and tightened

his refusal to let

another woman.

Roxanne tried her best to distance