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!”

anxiously as blood dripped

dash into the kitchen when

to hold her

froze in their

you thinking?”

vast hand on hers.

around her waist and lifted her to her feet in

already standing by the sink when she regained

on the faucet and dragged her wrist under

Lucian ordered, turning his attention to the three children by the

nodded when they saw

out a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped it around

point, Roxanne had regained sufficient control of her faculties. She tried to jerk her hand out of his while avoiding his gaze. “I can finish up

frowned and tightened

annoyed at his refusal to let

another woman. Essie is watching us

on them, Roxanne tried her best to distance