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.

Roxanne, they wouldn't have known how long they

pursed her lips and smiled.

and piped up, "It's not your

before she made sense of his words. When she realized that he was comforting her, she did

and took proper care of Essie," Lucian explained sombrely Roxanne felt a little less guilty after

the torchlight on the ground and said with all seriousness, "I should thank

might not have been able

had walked in that direction earlier because they coincidentally noticed the light originating from

at Estella, who was now resting in Cayden's arms. "I wonder how Essie is. She was here for so long. She must be scared out of her wits. She couldn't stop crying just

spirits as well. "We can only check her condition when we

Estella in his arms, Cayden uttered sympathetically, "Ms. Estella doesn't seem to have sustained

was fearful that the unfortunate incident would traumatize her and aggravate her

rest of Cayden's unfinished sentence. Their faces darkened at

the way back, everyone kept quiet as a heavy