Leaving The Country After Divorce

Chapter 939 The Water

When he saw that Roxanne wanted to have a look at his stomach, Benny removed his arms without a fuss. Roxanne caressed Benny’s forehead. Her eyes were filled with distress.

However, after examining the two children, Roxanne still could not arrive at a diagnosis. As time passed, the children’s pain became increasingly severe.

Roxanne felt immensely helpless and powerless at that moment. She blamed herself for having brought the children out to camp but failing to watch over them properly.

Her guilt and distress were plainly written all over her face. Archie noticed his mother’s mood and approached her quietly. “Mommy.”

His voice pulled Roxanne out of her reverie, and she forced herself to calm down. Then, she said, “I brought a medical kit with us. Can you go get it from the tent and bring it here?”

The children were in excruciating pain, and yet, Roxanne had not managed to locate the cause of it. At that moment, she could only do her best to ease their symptoms.

I’ll give them some pain medication first! I can’t go wrong with that!

Archie reappeared in a few minutes with the medical kit, which he placed on the ground next to Roxanne.

Roxanne shook several painkiller pills into the palm of her hand. She fed one to each of the two sick children and sat back to wait for it to take effect.

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of two possibilities for the cause of their sudden illness. One was that the kids had overexerted themselves while playing and caught a cold.

how Archie had somehow

was not

patted his stomach. “My tummy hurts a bit, but only a

spoke, he gestured at Roxanne with his hands, showing her

across Roxanne’s face. Her eyes drifted

five minutes since she had administered the painkiller. However, the two children showed

She was curled against the edge of the tent as a sheen of cold

Roxanne was so distressed

Archie called out

she turned to look

solemn. “I think I know why Benny and Essie

Roxanne’s expression shifted into one of

tell her what they had been up

surprise, Archie ran into the tent

Archie sniffed the

the cups had a strange smell— the same smell that