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 because she did not want Estella to be afraid.

so long. Her eyes and nose were red, and her cheeks were smeared with dirt from when she

to rescue her after she waited for so

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

her surroundings for something that could help her pull Estella up as she

while

loudly that she could not even

the stick to the edge of the hole and trying its length, Roxanne figured Estella could reach the other end of the tree

close to losing her voice after yelling excessively earlier. She cleared her

her face, and tiptoed to grasp the tree

the tip of the tree branch. There was still some length to be covered for her to take

She crawled forward and pushed the tree branch further into the hole.

then could Estella seize the other end

Estella wrapped her hands around the tree branch, Roxanne gritted her teeth and pulled with all

much strength left in her after starving for the whole night and walking for so

was too weak

was tugged forward, causing half her body to hang over the edge of

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