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.

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

couldn’t stop himself from peeking through

Roxanne regaining her composure several seconds later and tried to push

of her neck and mumbled, “They won’t

was about to protest when the kids’ adorable voices

didn’t

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

now but had seen everything a while

didn’t see a thing,” Lucian assured her, feigning nonchalance and tightening his grip around her

and allowed him to hug her. “What is it?

was overwhelmed with a mix of

why he had reached out to

it was because he felt guilty, or perhaps he just couldn’t help

Lucian said in a hoarse voice, “Can you promise me

feel captivated by Roxanne’s alluring appearance in the ocean-blue dress. He couldn’t shake off the guilt he felt for what happened six years ago and wanted to

as she naturally understood the underlying meaning of