Leaving The Country After Divorce

She must’ve stood here alone six years ago. What could she be thinking of? Was she blaming me?

He slowly approached her, his eyes revealing the guilt and affection that had been building up inside of him for the past six years.

Roxanne turned over her shoulder to realize that there was someone standing beside her. She was suddenly transported back in time, and the man’s presence filled the void that had been left in her life.

“A penny for your thoughts.” Lucian suddenly spoke when he noticed the change in her expression.

Roxanne snapped out of her reverie and flashed a nonchalant smile. “It’s nothing. The ocean looks somewhat different today, that’s all.”

That would explain why she felt different when she had been here before.

Lucian looked at her silently before suddenly reaching out to pull her into his arms.

Behind him, the children were taken aback.

quickly recalled how they had interrupted the adults’ hug previously and promptly covered their eyes with their hands, but

stop himself from peeking through the gaps of

saw Roxanne regaining her composure several seconds later and tried to

the nape of her neck and mumbled, “They won’t

about to protest when

didn’t

children and saw that they had all covered their eyes with their hands. They were standing still with huge

see anything now but

her, feigning nonchalance and

allowed him to hug her. “What is it? Hurry, spill. The children

was overwhelmed with a

no idea why he had reached out to hug

he felt guilty, or perhaps he just couldn’t

silence, Lucian said in a hoarse voice, “Can you promise me you’ll only wear this kind

ocean-blue dress. He couldn’t shake off the guilt he felt for what happened six years

naturally understood