Chapter 279 

“Essie, is that you?” 

Roxanne grew certain she did not imagine the sobs and started to feel more honeful 

Estella stopped crying when she heard Roxanne‘s voice as well. “M–Ms. Jarvis?” 

Roxanne heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing that. She hastily walked toward where Estella was. 

She had barely taken a few steps forward when she suddenly slipped. 

Roxanne‘s heart jumped into her throat as she narrowly steadied herself by grabbing a large tree next to her. 

She gazed downward and noticed Estella, who was cowering miserably at the bottom of a pit that was partially concealed by the dense plants around. 

“Essie?” Roxanne‘s heart ached terribly when she saw Estella. 

Looking up at the beam of light shining into the hole, Estella saw Roxanne smiling at her in relief. 

guilt–ridden at the sight of Estella‘s face. Yet, she did not dare to express her emotions

nose were red, and her cheeks were smeared with dirt from when she had wiped her tears earlier. She appeared

waited for so long.

her lungs out. “Don‘t cry, Essie. I‘m going to find something to pull you up.”

help her pull Estella up

while she

loudly that she could not even hear Roxanne‘s voice.

the hole

tree branch. I‘ll pull you up.” Roxanne was close to losing her voice after yelling

tears on her face,

the tree branch. There was still some length to be covered for

pushed the tree branch further into the hole.

then could Estella seize the other end of the tree branch.

branch, Roxanne gritted her teeth and pulled with all

did not have much strength left in her after starving for the whole night and walking for so long inside the forest.

things worse, Estella was too weak to cooperate with her.

exerted force simultaneously, Estella remained rooted to her spot. Instead, Roxanne was

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