The Abandoned Wife

Even though Roxanne and Estella had been by each other's side a lot recently, their feelings toward each other were much different from before after the truth was revealed. Roxanne had so much she wanted to tell her lost daughter. Similarly, Estella had a lot she wanted to say to her mother.

The two lay in bed and chatted endlessly, never running out of topics to talk to each other about.

"I drew a lot of pictures of me and my mommy, but none of those mommies in the pictures were as pretty as you."

Estella looked at Roxanne with glee in her eyes, her smile so sweet and lovely that it softened Roxanne's heart. "Now that I found you, can you draw pictures with me, Mommy?" Roxanne's heart nearly melted into a puddle at her question. "Sure. Let's do everything together!"

Estella's eyes sparkled with delight. "Archie and Benny too! I want to do everything with them too!"

Roxanne promised with a laugh, "Archie and Benny will be by your side too."

"Mommy," Estella suddenly whispered into Roxanne's ear.

Playing along with the little girl, Roxanne put on a curious expression. "What's wrong?"

softly, "Can you tell me who is Archie's and Benny's

though Mommy and Daddy are already together, I still wish they can progress to the next stage. I

Roxanne's face stiffened ever so slightly when she

share the same parents? If I tell her the truth, will she ask why I refused to say yes to Lucian even though we

Estella wouldn't have thought of that question with her current level of intellect, Roxanne still couldn't

is in the future."

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no matter who their father is, we will

that thought in mind, Estella was once again filled with joy. "Then can they please come over so we could

to decline the little girl's request when the latter burrowed deeper into her embrace. "I feel bad for them. I have a daddy and a mommy, but they

guilt-ridden when Estella mentioned the absence of the boys'

got the better of her, she sighed internally

Get your brothers to

on her pajama and led her to the boys'

room, Archie and Benny were sitting on Archie's