Leaving The Country After Divorce

Chapter 1629 I Want To Talk To Mommy

The next day at the Farwell residence, the kids woke up and were worried when they found out their parents didn’t come home last night.

“Archie, let’s call Mommy’s phone!” Benny nudged his brother’s arm.

Unease had been churning in the pit of the kids’ stomachs ever since coming home from school yesterday.

They recalled the last time something happened to Roxanne and were concerned when they didn’t hear back from Lucian and her.

Archie nodded with a frown, dialing Roxanne’s number.

Benny’s face fell when the dial tone went on for a long while. “What if something bad happened to Mommy…”

“No, Mr. Lawson said Mommy is away on a business trip. Maybe she’s traveling and can’t answer the phone,” Archie reassured. “How about we try Daddy’s phone? Why didn’t he come home either?”

he nodded, and

Lucian saw Roxanne’s phone light up with a call from the kids and glanced at her laying still in the hospital bed. He pondered for a moment

worried about you.” He grazed his fingertips over her pale cheek, which

phone started ringing a while later. He fished it out to see it was a

knitted, and he fought the heavy emotions before answering neutrally,

voice sounding like

crowded forward before Archie

Mommy? I want to talk to Mommy,” the little

a business trip and isn’t

phone when

fell to Roxanne’s phone on the nightstand, and he turned it off before saying, “Mommy is very busy. She will call you back when she’s done. You shouldn’t keep calling and

kids nodded reluctantly. “Okay,

relief at