It was hard to tell how long Roxanne and Lucian stayed in the living room before her phone rang. It was from Lysa. Roxanne answered the call.
“Have you returned, Ms. Jarvis? If not, we can go and pick you up.” Lysa’s voice entered her ears the moment the call connected. Roxanne replied plainly. “I’m already.
back home. You should bring the children straight back here.” It was then Lysa sounded rather troubled. “Also, Mr. Farwell’s assistant is saying that he wants to go home with us…”
When she went to pick up Archie and Benny, Estella was still there. The boys insisted they would only leave after she left, so Lysa had no choice but to wait with them.
At the end, when Cayden arrived, he said he wanted to come home with Lysa. She couldn’t make the decision. so she called Roxanne. Roxanne glanced at Lucian subconsciously when she heard that.
He was acting as though he didn’t hear anything. His eyes remained fixed on his phone without any expression.
Seeing that, she hesitated for a few seconds before replying, “I understand. Let him come back with you all.” A sigh of relief escaped Lysa’s mouth
when she obtained permission from her employer. She agreed and hung up the phone. Thinking about how she had to face her children later, Roxanne took in a deep breath in order to calm down.
After a while, the gate was opened from the outside. The children’s laughter entered her ears. It was apparent the children were happy they were able to come back together.
Roxanne was about to pick them up out of habit.
Lucian had been keeping his eye on her. so the moment he detected her intentions, he put his phone away and stopped her. “Don’t move. Your wound has just been bandaged.”
She halted as she watched him head to the entrance. “Daddy!” Estella was overjoyed when she saw her father was there and hugged his leg excitedly.
He patted her head and grabbed the children’s bags from Lysa’s hand. Then, he watched them change their shoes before taking them inside to wash their hands.
During the process, the boys were a little confused. They remembered their mother didn’t. like their father coming over, yet there he was. Additionally, their mother didn’t seem to want their father to leave.
“Ms. Jarvis!” Estella ran straight to Roxanne after she finished washing her hands.
There were a lot of complicated feelings swirling in Roxanne’s heart at that moment, yet she still forced herself to smile and hug her daughter.
Estella stared at Roxanne’s injured leg panickily. “Is your leg feeling better?”
Roxanne smiled at the girl comfortingly. “Yes, it is. Thank you for caring about me, Essie.”
That didn’t put the girl’s worry at ease. She got off the couch and carefully touched the fresh bandage on her leg. Roxanne just smiled and let the girl do whatever she wanted.
As for the boys, they were sitting at the side quietly. Occasionally, they would glance at their father with caution.
Suddenly, the children saw the blood stained gauze on the ground. It would appear neither Lucian nor Roxanne had the time to throw the gauze away before the children returned.
Then, they turned to the new gauze on their mother’s injury. Their eyebrows furrowed as they stared at Roxanne. “Did your wound open up, Mommy?”
Roxanne’s heart tightened when she heard that. She subconsciously glanced at Estella.
The girl’s face crumpled. She stared at her with a worried pout.
