Chapter 279 

“Essie, is that you?” 

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

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. 

Looking up at the beam of light shining into the hole, Estella saw Roxanne smiling at her in relief. 

Yet, she did not

nose were red, and her cheeks were smeared with dirt from when she had wiped her tears earlier. She appeared

there to rescue her after she waited for so long. Estella began crying harder after

lungs out. “Don‘t

surroundings for something that could help her

while she

loudly that she could not even hear Roxanne‘s voice.

the stick to the edge of the hole and trying its length, Roxanne figured Estella could reach the

here and grab this tree branch. I‘ll pull you up.” Roxanne was close to losing her voice after yelling excessively earlier. She cleared her throat to make

wiped the tears on her face, and tiptoed to grasp the

was still some length to be covered for her to take hold of the tree

forward and pushed the tree branch further

Estella seize the other

her teeth and pulled with all her might to drag Estella

much strength left in her after starving for the whole night and walking

too

was tugged forward, causing half her body to hang over the edge of

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