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!”

cried out anxiously as

dash into the kitchen when a tall

squat beside their mother to hold her wrist in his large hand with

Benny froze in their

were you thinking?” he asked

hand on hers. She was at a loss for

arms around her waist and lifted her to her feet in

already standing by the sink when

faucet and

the three children by

Roxanne, they nodded when they saw that

a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped it around her injured finger to stem the

regained sufficient control of her faculties. She tried to jerk her hand out of his while

and tightened

annoyed at his refusal to let

another woman.

aware of Estella’s eyes on them, Roxanne tried her best