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!”

as blood

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

their mother to hold her wrist in his large

froze

you thinking?”

stared blankly at the vast hand on hers. She was

arms around her waist and lifted her to her feet in an

the sink when she

on the faucet and dragged her wrist

outside,” Lucian ordered, turning his attention to the three children by the door. “Do not come

worried about Roxanne, they nodded when they saw that she

a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped it around

of her faculties. She tried to jerk

man frowned and

felt annoyed at his

another woman. Essie is watching

of Estella’s eyes on them, Roxanne