The Abandoned Wife

Roxanne noticed his expression darkening and assumed it was because he did not enjoy the lunch earlier, so helplessly, she continued to reassure him.

"It made me very happy that you guys put a lot of effort into helping me prepare lunch. Thank you for that."

However, as soon as her words fell, Lucian put his arms around her waist and kissed her on the lips.

His actions promptly took Roxanne aback, and she instinctively glanced at the car just in time to see the heads of the three children poking out of the window.

"Mommy! We want a kiss too!"

The children's initial guilty expression changed after she noticed them, and they happily swung open the car door and got out.

Roxanne glanced at the calm-looking man in front of her before focusing on the children's expectant expressions. She crouched down and kissed each child individually, the shyness within her vanished because of them.

The children also obediently encircled her neck with their arms and kissed her on the cheek. "Don't forget to take good care of yourself, Mommy!"

getting up and bidding farewell to Lucian, she turned and entered the

leave her feeling a little exhausted, seeing Lucian and the

soon began to continue

shortly after she had been working, her

discovered that

her experiment on hold to take the call, assuming he was calling for

other end of the line. "My apologies, Ms. Jarvis. I've been caught up in other matters

need not apologize to me, Mr. Damaris. Given that your family owns such a sizable business, it's understandable for you

to be free today, so if you

hesitated when

the Damaris family is knowledgeable in this aspect. I can

a new drug with superior efficacy, so she had no reason to refuse

that case, I'll have to trouble you

chuckled before ending

at the research institute a scant step behind Lucian and the children,