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

smiled. “This

and piped up, “It‘s

his words. When she realized that he was comforting her, she did

I am to be blamed for this matter. Essie is a wilful child. I did not

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

the ground and said with all seriousness, “I should thank you instead. Thank you for

not found Estella first, they might not have been able to discover this

in that direction earlier because they coincidentally noticed the light originating from Roxanne‘s torchlight.

arms. “I wonder how Essie is. She was here for so long. She must be scared out of

the way Estella

“We can

Estella in his arms, Cayden uttered sympathetically, “Ms. Estella doesn‘t seem to have sustained any serious external injuries. I‘m just afraid that...”

begin with. Cayden was fearful that the

guess the rest of Cayden‘s unfinished sentence. Their faces

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