Chapter 8 Not Giving Up

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Seeing how restless their mother looked, Archie and Benny asked deliberately, “Who’s Lucian, Mommy? Why are we hiding from him?”

Roxanne slowly returned to her senses and stroked their heads, smiling as if everything was fine. “He’s no one important. I just have a bit of a personal grudge against him. I want you both to hide if you ever hear his name, okay?”

The two boys nodded. “Okay, Mommy.”

After Roxanne looked away, they glanced at each other curiously.

What could’ve happened between Mommy and Daddy? It all seems like a huge misunderstanding.

As Roxanne continued to ponder over what could be happening on Madilyn’s side, the boys spoke again.

“Mommy, we left in such a rush back there. If that guy becomes suspicious, he might check the surveillance cameras and find us easily,” Archie reminded.

The woman tensed up instantly. “Oh, God. I totally forgot! What do I do?”

I was so focused on running away that I forgot about the cameras! Lucian might already be here.

to take the

made the boys turn away to conceal their smiles, and they only consoled her after they had suppressed

Mommy. I’ll handle

and began tapping away on

took a while for him to hack into the restaurant’s surveillance cameras and wipe out every

“I’m done!”

his mother with twinkling eyes, eagerly

Roxanne pulled the two children into an embrace. “Thank goodness I have you. You’ve just

nervous, the boys let

we leaving now, Mommy? Or should we wait for Aunt Madilyn to come outside?” asked Archie after Roxanne had

of the empty parking lot. “Let’s wait a

nodded

to force a confession out of Madilyn, Lucian could only quash

daughter. Well, then, we’ll be off now. Enjoy your meal with your friends,”

turned to the little

Estella waved at Madilyn politely

but said nothing more, leaving with the little girl and his

out of the building, he tried to carry Estella into the car,

Cayden hurriedly stepped in and

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