The Abandoned Wife

Estella's cries became sharper, and her eyes were filled with terror as she gripped Roxanne's shoulder tightly.

Roxanne instinctively pulled Estella into her embrace and turned around, wanting to take the attack on the latter's behalf. However, only a muffled thud was heard.

The pain that was supposed to follow did not happen.

It took Roxanne several seconds before she slowly lifted her head to glance in the direction where Aubree was coming from.

To Roxanne's surprise, Aubree's hand that held the ashtray earlier was held by Lucian while the ashtray had dropped to the ground.

Various emotions could be seen flashing across Aubree's face.

First, there was the mad look on Aubree's face for the urge to kill Roxanne. Another was her terror for Lucian.

"You crazy woman!"

was so tight that it could almost crush

snapped back to her senses. Suppressing the pain in her wrist, she apologized frantically,

"I swear I won't do it again. Please forgive me..." she pleaded, ignoring the pain in

deserve to die for everything you did." Lucian's voice was horrifyingly cold. Shuddering, Aubree backed away with the help of her hands. At the

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how much

She cast her granddaughter a worried look before turning back to Aubree. "I always thought Essie didn't like you because you two didn't spend enough time together. Never did I

much Estella had suffered over the years made Sonya's

dare this b*tch still beg me

Mr. Pearson's favor long ago," announced Lucian. He then cast the Pearsons an icy glance. "In the future, Pearson Group is an enemy of

bear it

wanting to grab Lucian's

was quick to react