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. 

Roxanne, they wouldn‘t have known

her lips and smiled. “This is my

her and piped up,

a few seconds before she made sense of his words. When she realized that he was comforting her, she did not know

in anger after she quarreled with Aubree. 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

little less guilty after listening to him. She pursed her

pick up the torchlight on 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 pit the latter

that direction earlier because they coincidentally noticed the light

Cayden‘s arms. “I wonder how Essie is. She was here for so long. She must

when she was reminded of the way Estella bawled her

as well. “We can only check her condition

Estella in his arms, Cayden uttered sympathetically, “Ms. Estella doesn‘t seem to

was fearful that the unfortunate incident would

the rest of Cayden‘s unfinished sentence. Their faces darkened at

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