Chapter 281 

Roxanne was about to tell Lucian she could manage to pull herself up when he hugged her even more tightly. 

“Don‘t move. Otherwise, it will be difficult for me to climb up.” His voice sounded a little hoarse. 

Roxanne felt a brief surge of strange emotion in her chest as she listened to his voice. She stayed still afterward and allowed him to carry her out of the hole. 

She broke away from his embrace right after they safely escaped the pit. 

“Mrs–Ms. Jarvis, you are so kind to Ms. Estella.” Cayden could not help but say wistfully. 

He had been utterly shocked when he saw Roxanne hugging Estella at the bottom of the pit earlier. 

Cayden was already surprised that Roxanne was willing to venture deep into the forest in the middle of the night to search for Estella. Unexpectedly, Roxanne even located Estella before 

them in the wilderness. 

it weren’t for Roxanne, they wouldn‘t have known how long they

her lips and smiled. “This is my obligation.”

at her and piped up,

sense of his words. When she realized

for this matter. Essie is a wilful child. I did

a little less guilty after listening to him. She pursed her lips and expressed her gratitude to Lucian,

to pick up the torchlight on the ground and said with all seriousness, “I

been able

had walked in that direction earlier because they coincidentally noticed the light originating

Estella, who was now resting in Cayden‘s arms. “I wonder how Essie is. She was here for so long. She must be scared out of her wits. She couldn‘t stop

of the way Estella bawled her eyes out

in low spirits as well. “We can

uttered sympathetically, “Ms. Estella doesn‘t seem to have sustained any serious external injuries. I‘m

suffered from psychological illness to begin with. Cayden was fearful that the unfortunate incident would traumatize her and aggravate her existing

Cayden‘s unfinished sentence. Their faces

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