Mission To Remarry

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. 

face. Yet, she did not dare to express her emotions

and her cheeks were smeared with dirt from when she had wiped her tears earlier. She appeared very pitiable with her head hung low and her body covered in

after she waited for so long. Estella began

“Don‘t cry, Essie. I‘m going to find something to pull you

help her

while she looked around.

she could not even hear Roxanne‘s

found a sufficiently long tree branch after much difficulty. After bringing the stick to the edge of the hole and trying its length, Roxanne figured Estella could reach the other end of the tree branch if

here and grab this tree branch. I‘ll pull you up.” Roxanne was close to losing her voice after yelling excessively earlier. She cleared her

up, wiped the tears on her face, and tiptoed to grasp the

she could only touch the tip of the tree branch. There was still some length to be covered for her to take hold of the

She crawled forward and pushed the tree branch further

then could Estella seize the other end of the

around the tree branch, Roxanne gritted her teeth and pulled with all her might to drag Estella out of the

did not have much strength left in her after starving for the whole night and walking

worse, Estella was too weak to cooperate

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Instead, Roxanne was tugged forward, causing half her body to hang