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!”

children cried out anxiously as blood dripped from

into the kitchen when a tall figure suddenly stopped in

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

and Benny froze

thinking?” he asked

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

waist and lifted her to her feet

the sink when she

turned on the faucet and dragged her wrist under the stream of

attention to the three children

the children were worried about Roxanne, they nodded when they saw that she was in

on the woman’s hand was clean enough, Lucian took out a clean

faculties. She tried to jerk her hand out of his while avoiding his gaze. “I can finish up on my

man frowned and tightened his

felt annoyed at his

another woman. Essie is watching

aware of Estella’s eyes on them, Roxanne