His And Her Marriage (Lucian and Roxanne) novel Chapter 81

Chapter 81

The three children exchanged glances before putting the Lego pieces down in an unspoken agreement and running into the kitchen.

“What happened, Mommy?” Archie and Benny asked in concern.

Their voices roused Roxanne out of her trance. She felt even more uneasy at the sight of her sons before her. Barely able to suppress her fears, she shook her head and mustered a smile. “It’s nothing,” she said. “The bowl must have slipped out of my hand. Don’t come in. There are broken pieces everywhere.”

With that, she squatted down as if nothing had happened to pick up the pieces, still distracted as she did so.

Lucian’s eyes darkened from behind the three children as he studied the woman on her knees.

I could be imagining it, but this woman does seem to have a lot on her mind.

Roxanne lowered her head. The man’s intense gaze upon her disconcerted her further.

In a momentary lapse of vigilance, her fingers closed around a particularly sharp corner of a shard.

A tingling pain erupting from her fingertips snapped her back to her senses, and she gave an involuntary gasp of pain.

“Mommy!”“Ms. Jarvis!”

The children cried out anxiously as blood dripped from Roxanne’s finger.

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Archie and Benny were about to dash into the kitchen when a tall figure suddenly stopped in front of them.

A moment later, they watched Lucian squat beside their mother to hold her wrist in his large hand with a cold expression on his face.

Archie and Benny froze in their tracks.

“What were you thinking?” he asked with irritation.

Roxanne stared blankly at the vast hand on hers. She was at a loss for words.

Lucian wrapped his arms around her waist and lifted her to her feet in an instant.

Roxanne was already standing by the sink when she regained her senses.