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!"

bidding farewell to Lucian, she turned and

exhausted, seeing Lucian and

soon began to continue the

shortly after she had been working, her

at it and discovered that it

experiment on hold to take the call, assuming he was calling for research-related

voice rang out from the other end of the line. "My apologies, Ms. Jarvis. I've been caught

his words. "You need not apologize to me, Mr. Damaris. Given that your family owns such a sizable

be free today, so if you don't mind, I can come to

when she heard

aspect. I can spare you some detours and perhaps also

could develop a new drug with superior efficacy, so she had no reason to refuse after hearing what he

that case, I'll have to trouble

merely chuckled before ending the

Jack had arrived at the research institute a scant step behind Lucian and the children, nearly at the