Chapter 185 

Before she even knew it, the surgery had already gone on for over seven hours. 

By then, all the other kids in the kindergarten had already left, and only three kids remained. 

Estella had moved out of their house, but Archie and Benny still treated her the same way they did when she was staying with them. 

The boys noticed that no one was there to pick Estella up, so they took her to the sandbox. All three of them then built a sandcastle together and were having so much fun. 

When Lucian showed up, he saw the three kids crouching in the sandbox. Their laughter filled the small playground in the kindergarten. 

“Essie,” said Lucian, who waited until all three had finished playing before he called out to his daughter. 

However, Estella was reluctant to leave as she stared at her two friends, even though her dad had already called out to her. 

Lucian frowned and turned his attention to Archie and Benny. “Where‘s your mom?” 

The boys didn‘t like him, but they still stood up politely. 

to the side to stare at the tiny sandcastle they had

important surgery to perform

turned around and saw the look on Archie‘s face. That prompted Benny to quickly add, “But, uh, she should be

out to hold Estella‘s hand and leave but to no  avail,

her head down and backed away a few steps. At that moment, she was standing behind Archie and Benny,

leave, so they turned around to coo her.

convince her to go home, Estella stubbornly shook her head. She even clutched onto their bags

from Roxanne‘s place. The kid would cry endlessly at every trivial matter, and that made Lucian raise his white flag. At that point, he no longer dared to force her to do things she

play as freely as they did before. All they did was sit quietly

an hour, the sky was turning dark. Yet, Roxanne was nowhere to be

as he fished his phone out of his pocket to

calls, but no one

still in the operating room.

to the kids. “Are you hungry?

at both Archie and Benny with

with a scowl on his face. “We‘re going to wait

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