Chapter 279 Guilt

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“Essie, is that you?”

Roxanne grew certain she did not imagine the sobs and started to feel more hopeful.

Estella stopped crying when she heard Roxanne’s voice as well. “M-Ms. Jarvis?”

Roxanne heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing that. She hastily walked toward where Estella was.

She had barely taken a few steps forward when she suddenly slipped.

Roxanne’s heart jumped into her throat as she narrowly steadied herself by grabbing a large tree next to her.

She gazed downward and noticed Estella, who was cowering miserably at the bottom of a pit that was partially concealed by the dense plants around.

“Essie?” Roxanne’s heart ached terribly when she saw Estella.

light shining into the

felt more guilt-ridden at the sight of Estella’s face. Yet, she did not dare to express her emotions because

and her cheeks were smeared with dirt from when she had wiped her tears earlier. She appeared very pitiable with her

she waited for so long. Estella began crying harder after a few

when she saw Estella wailing her lungs out. “Don’t cry, Essie. I’m going to find something

surroundings for something that could help her pull Estella up as

consoled Estella while

Estella was bawling so loudly that she could

long tree branch after much difficulty. After bringing the stick to the edge of the hole and trying its

was close to losing her voice after yelling excessively earlier. She cleared her throat to make her

wiped the tears on her face, and tiptoed to

the tip of the tree branch. There was still some

She crawled forward and pushed the

Estella seize the other end of

Roxanne gritted her teeth and pulled with all

her after starving for the whole night and walking for so long inside the

make things worse, Estella was too weak

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