Chapter 281 

Roxanne was about to tell Lucian she could manage to pull herself up when he hugged her even more tightly. 

“Don‘t move. Otherwise, it will be difficult for me to climb up.” His voice sounded a little hoarse. 

Roxanne felt a brief surge of strange emotion in her chest as she listened to his voice. She stayed still afterward and allowed him to carry her out of the hole. 

She broke away from his embrace right after they safely escaped the pit. 

“Mrs–Ms. Jarvis, you are so kind to Ms. Estella.” Cayden could not help but say wistfully. 

He had been utterly shocked when he saw Roxanne hugging Estella at the bottom of the pit earlier. 

Cayden was already surprised that Roxanne was willing to venture deep into the forest in the middle of the night to search for Estella. Unexpectedly, Roxanne even located Estella before 

them in the wilderness. 

weren’t for Roxanne, they wouldn‘t have known how long they needed

and smiled. “This is my

gazed at her and piped up, “It‘s not your

seconds before she made sense of his words. When she realized that he was comforting

I am to be blamed for this matter. Essie is a wilful child. I did not stop Aubree in time and took proper care of Essie,” Lucian explained sombrely

felt a little less guilty after listening to him. She pursed her lips and expressed her

down to pick up the torchlight on the ground and said with all seriousness, “I should

they might not have been able

walked in that direction earlier because they coincidentally noticed the light

wonder how Essie is. She was here for so long. She must be scared out of her wits. She couldn‘t stop crying just now.”

ached when she was reminded of the way

spirits as well. “We can only

“Ms. Estella doesn‘t seem to have

to begin with. Cayden was fearful that the unfortunate incident would traumatize her and aggravate her existing condition.

rest of Cayden‘s unfinished sentence. Their faces darkened

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