The Abandoned Wife

Chapter 648

Soon, Cayden sent Jessica away.

Only after getting out of the hotel diad Jessica finally make sense of what was happening. She struggled to break free, but it was all too late.

After Jessica left, Lucian scanned the crowd.

Everyone felt chills running down their backs as they met his gaze. They dared not linger and. hastily left afterward.

Instantly, only a few people were left at the entrance of the hotel.

"Thank you for helping me out of the situation, Mr. Farwell," Roxanne said.

She lowered her gaze and tried to calm herself as she muttered her thanks to Lucian, consciously keeping her distance from the man. Then she turned around to head back to Larry's side. However, Lucian held her hand right after she turned around.

Roxanne paused in her tracks and instinctively wanted to shrug him off, yet she did not have the courage to turn around and tell him off. She simply stood there stiffly.

insincere with your thanks, Ms. Jarvis," Lucian said

from them. When he parted his lips, however, he did not sound as amiable as when

Mr. Morrison, the both of you couldn't even handle a drunken woman, and as a result, your business partner here has suffered a scare. I'm afraid

Cayden reported the matter to him earlier, he had only mentioned that Roxanne was being put on the spot, and Lucian had

to discover that Jack and Larry

all happened too fast. We had

flitted across

amicable personality, he had only thought about defending Roxanne when Jessica tried to admonish her. It never occurred to him to come up with a more aggressive retaliation. Larry knew he could

gave him a sardonic look and turned to look at Jack. He wanted to

an explanation. Instead, he said, "I am

because of me. I will take care of the rest. Dr. Jarvis' name will not

lips into a thin, hard line. Then

were the ones whom he had witnessed to

fact, Lucian felt threatened by

could not even protect Roxanne from being slandered, Lucian vowed that he would never

was his

the four of them