The Abandoned Wife

Chapter 1017 Petty Tricks

In the meantime, Estella was getting hungry from waiting, so she let herself out the door. As soon as she arrived downstairs, she heard Aubree express her intention to spend the night.

Alarm bells sounded in Estella's head. She waddled over to her father's side. Daddy and Ms. Jarvis had not reconciled, and she would be even angrier if she finds out that Ms. Pearson is going to spend the night here!

Even worse, Estella feared her father would have Aubree become her mother. The child gazed at her father with wide, unblinking eyes and conveyed her thoughts without uttering a word.

Lucian met Estella's eyes and caressed her head comfortingly, then turned his gaze to Aubree. Aubree's heart thumped audibly at the realization that Lucian's answer was not what she wanted to hear. "You should go to a hospital for that. I wouldn't be able to explain myself to my mother if your condition worsens." Lucian's tone was cold.

After he spoke, the man stood up from the couch.

her father's trouser leg and

after the departing father and daughter, Aubree glared

That little b*tch again!

Aubree redirected her gaze at Lucian. "Could you come with me to the hospital then, Lucian? I'm a little

house, it was only

Estella tugged on her father's trouser leg, looking

all night at the hospital when he sent her that time. I'm afraid Daddy would do the same for Ms. Jarvis. Lucian gazed down at his daughter next to him before inclining his head at

Estella up the

to the hospital with her, Daddy!" Estella said while puffing up her cheeks as soon as they

was hinting at,

closer to her father with the most forlorn look she could muster, and her tone

me that you would ask for my blessing

frowned in puzzlement at those