The Abandoned Wife

Chapter 278

The forest was dark. Roxanne could only rely on her torchlight because the faint moonlight was insufficient to illuminate the path ahead of her.

She walked carefully inside the forest, not knowing where she was.

Roxanne only knew Estella was nowhere in sight thus far in her venture into the woods.

After sending Archie and Benny back to the hotel, she checked the messages in the WhatsApp group and noticed none of the other parents had seen Estella.

No one has yet to search the forest. This is the only place left. If Essie is really in here...

Roxanne felt more frightened the more she dwelled on that thought.

Even she was scared of being alone in that environment, not to mention Estella, who was just a little girl.

Essie would not have come inside here if it weren't for me.

Roxanne gritted her teeth and hastened her steps. She must locate Estella as

"Essie! Where are you?"

receive any response from the little girl. However, even after she shouted until

movements

Estella was there, so

something jumped

on the

was just a wild rabbit. She let

whereabouts, her anxiety intensified, and she walked forward at a quicker

had reached, Roxanne could

a beat. She wondered if that

in her mind, she slowed down and

Estella was squatting on the ground in a pitiful condition with dirt all over her. She

run out of the hotel in the afternoon, intending to return to the botanical

appeared beside the road. Overwhelmed by fear and shock, she ran aimlessly and unknowingly entered the forest beside the road. When Estella came to her senses, she had already arrived in the deeper part of the

as quickly as possible, but she failed to

accidentally fell into

climb out, but her attempts were unfruitful due to the slippery, moss-covered walls. She repeatedly fell back to the bottom of the hole