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.

wouldn't have known

and smiled. "This is

gazed at her and piped up, "It's not your

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

this matter. Essie is a wilful child. I did not stop Aubree in 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

down to pick up the torchlight on the ground and said with

have been able to discover this pit the latter

that direction earlier because they coincidentally noticed the

She was here for so long. She must be scared out of her wits. She couldn't stop crying just now." Roxanne's heart ached when she was reminded of the way Estella

was in low spirits as well. "We can

seem to have sustained any serious external injuries. I'm just

Cayden was fearful that

Cayden's unfinished

kept quiet as a heavy atmosphere lingered in