The Abandoned Wife

Chapter 615

Lucian's gaze darkened as he stared at his phone.

An indeterminate amount of time passed before he located the flower shop's number and called them.

"Don't send any flowers tomorrow. Starting next week, please send them to VR Research Institute instead."

The flower shop staff agreed immediately.

Meanwhile, though Roxanne had clearly expressed her rejection, she continued to worry that Lucian would ignore her pleas.

The next day, Roxanne awoke bright and early and waited in the living room.

Her children seemed to echo her thoughts as they came downstairs early to wait with her.

The three of them waited with bated breath, especially Roxanne, who was fraught with nerves.

to ring her doorbell

as she watched the suspicions clearing from her sons' faces. She naively assumed that Lucian had finally

after resting at home for almost half a

and she

allow her to

arrived at about ten in the morning, having spent much time trying to

at the research institute were all staring

the doorway, Colby

flitting across his expression. More confused than ever, Roxanne asked, "Did anything happen this

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is everyone staring at me like that? And why

expression and asked, "Why did you suddenly show up to work? Has

"So what happened here? Why does it feel as though

into a corner, Colby pretended to be calm and smiled at Roxanne. "Someone sent a bouquet of roses over this morning for you. I thought you weren't coming today, so I put it in your office for you." Colby had run into an

immediately asked Colby if he knew Roxanne, and Colby froze for a good minute when he

the flowers

churned with an indescribable emotion as he walked into the