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 dripped

kitchen when a tall figure suddenly stopped in front of

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

froze in their

were you thinking?” he asked

on hers.

her waist and lifted her to her feet

standing by the sink

turned on the faucet and

turning his attention to the three children by the door. “Do

nodded when they saw that she was

wound on the woman’s hand was clean enough, Lucian took out a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped it around her injured finger to stem

to jerk her hand out of

frowned and tightened

annoyed at his refusal

has a child with another woman. Essie is watching us

eyes on them, Roxanne tried her best to distance