The Abandoned Wife

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.

they wouldn't have

lips and smiled.

at her and piped up, "It's

sense of his words. When she realized that he was comforting her, she did not

time and took proper care of Essie," Lucian explained sombrely Roxanne felt a little less guilty after listening to him. She pursed her lips and expressed

pick up the torchlight on the ground and said with all seriousness, "I

had not found Estella first, they might not have been able

direction earlier because they coincidentally noticed the

She must be scared out of her wits.

was in low spirits as well. "We

uttered sympathetically, "Ms. Estella doesn't seem to have sustained any serious external injuries. I'm just

psychological illness to begin with. Cayden was fearful that the unfortunate incident would traumatize her and

and Roxanne could guess the rest of Cayden's unfinished sentence. Their

the way back, everyone kept quiet as a heavy atmosphere lingered in