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.

it weren't for Roxanne, they wouldn't have known

pursed her lips and smiled. "This is my

her and piped up, "It's

a few seconds before she made sense of his words. When she

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

ground and said with all seriousness, "I should thank you instead. Thank

might not have been able to

in that direction earlier because they coincidentally

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

spirits as well. "We can only check

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

that the unfortunate incident would traumatize her and aggravate her existing

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

the way back, everyone kept quiet as