Moreover, she almost got discovered by Lucian.
Luckily, Lysa arrived in time to pick Archie and Benny up.
“Ms. Lane is here.” When Lucian saw Lysa, his expression turned grim, and he looked down toward Estella next to him.
Estella pursed her lips unhappily. She glanced around the crowd for the last time before slowly getting into the car.
When Lucian’s car slowly drove away, Roxanne breathed a sigh of relief and returned to her own car.
Lysa brought Archie and Benny to the side of the road to wave down a taxi, but Roxanne’s car stopped before them as soon as they arrived at the curb.
“Mommy!” Archie and Benny jumped in excitement.
Roxanne smiled at them and got out of the car, wanting to help them into the car.
However, the boys stopped smiling and looked in the direction where Lucian’s car went.
Mommy is finally here to pick us up, but Essie didn’t get to see her.
Looking at their behavior, Roxanne could roughly guess their thoughts.
She saw how hard the boys tried to cheer Estella up and immediately felt mixed feelings in her heart.
Fortunately, Archie and Benny’s sadness didn’t last long.
They knew that Roxanne would be unhappy if they were upset.
After a few seconds of feeling disappointed for Estella, the boys began smiling again and opened their arms to Roxanne.
Roxanne put away her thoughts and beamed. She carried the boys into the car one after another, and Lysa sat with them in the back seat.
“Mommy, why didn’t you tell us you were coming to pick us up?” Benny asked gingerly.
While starting the car, Roxanne thought of her suspicious actions before and couldn’t help but feel a little guilty when she heard Benny’s words. “Well, it was a spontaneous decision.”
Benny tilted his head in confusion. “Aren’t you busy with work today?”
“I finished my work early today, so I suddenly decided to come and pick you guys up.” Roxanne tried her best to sound normal so that the boys wouldn’t suspect her.
As she spoke, Archie responded in a childish tone, “Mommy’s a liar.”
Roxanne was stunned when she heard that.
Benny also looked at Archie in confusion, wondering why he said that.
“You’ve been here for a long time, right?” Archie looked at Roxanne’s face reflected in the rearview mirror sternly.
Roxanne didn’t expect Archie to notice her and wanted to brush off the matter. “I saw you guys as soon as I arrived.”
However, Archie ignored her explanation and said, “If you wanted to pick us up, you should’ve informed Ms. Lane not to come. But Ms. Lane came, and you were late. You even said that you got off work early today. You must be hiding something from us!”
Additionally, when Lucian came to fetch Estella just now, Archie heard her calling out to Roxanne.
At that time, he thought Estella only called out to Roxanne because she missed Roxanne too much.
Now that he thought about it, Roxanne must have been secretly keeping an eye on them from a hidden corner.
Roxanne didn’t expect Archie to make such a sharp deduction and felt slightly embarrassed. “I’m not hiding anything. I really just arrived—”
Benny finaliy realized what happened and exclaimed innocently, “So Estella kept looking for Mommy because she knew Mommy was here!”
Archie nodded. He had the same thought as his brother, but he didn’t know why Roxanne refused to admit it.
Roxanne felt quite helpless when the two boys acquiesced to the fact that she had arrived a long time ago without bothering to verify with her.
Lysa knew what was going on. Without hesitating, she asked Roxanne with a smile, “No wonder you called me in the afternoon. You must have gotten off work by that time.”
Her words seemed to imply that Roxanne came early but never showed up.
Roxanne smiled wryly and nodded in acknowledgment.
Archie and Benny looked at Roxanne accusingly from the back seat.
“Mommy, since you were here, why didn’t you come and see Essie?” Benny couldn’t help but ask.
Roxanne was at a loss for words. She couldn’t tell the boys about the grudges she had with Sonya.
However, at the same time, she didn’t have a good excuse to explain herself.
Just when she was racking her head to come up with an excuse, Benny said, “Mommy, you didn’t want to see Mr. Farwell, right?”
Otherwise, why would she wait for Mr. Farwell and Essie to leave before showing up?
Roxanne breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Archie and Benny silently as a sign of acquiescence.
After all, Lucian was also part of the reason why she didn’t show up before Estella.
The boys thought they guessed it right and stopped being angry. Instead, they comforted Roxanne, “Mommy, if you don’t want to see Mr. Farwell, then don’t. We will take good care of Essie!”
Since Lucian was cruel enough to leave the boys and Roxanne behind, they didn’t want to see him either.
Proud of her two sons, Roxanne smiled gently and said, “I know you will. I saw.”
When the boys heard her, they took the credit proudly.
The atmosphere in the car became lively.
Roxanne’s mood also became relaxed. She would respond to the boys patiently no matter what they said to her.
After they got home, Roxanne even cooked with Lysa, which was considered a rare occasion, and prepared a sumptuous dinner for the children.
After dinner, Roxanne played with them for a while. Then, she returned to her room when the boys were fast asleep.
Her emotions ran wild when she thought of the look on Estella’s face when she saw her in the afternoon.
When Estella came to see me before, she was full of joy. However, when I wasn’t around, Estella seemed visibly depressed. No wonder Archie and Benny were so moody in the past few days when they came home.
She wanted to go over and give Estella a hug, but she didn’t want to lose her chance for the medical consultation.
After all, she wouldn’t know if Sonya was secretly keeping an eye on her.
When she was deep in her thoughts, she received a text from Jonathan that read: My grandpa has written the letter of recommendation. I’ll send it over to you whenever you have the time.
After reading the text, Roxanne returned to her senses and replied: I’ll go and get it. Is tomorrow afternoon a good time?
Jonathan raised his eyebrows and responded with a yes. Then, he immediately switched to his chat history with Lucian.
The last message was two days ago when he told Lucian that Roxanne had agreed to go for the medical consultation.
Jonathan casually tapped the screen and sent a message: Lucian, how long has it been since you last visited my grandpa?
At the Farwell residence, Lucian watched as Estella fell asleep. As he walked out of her bedroom, he received Jonathan’s text and couldn’t help but frown, wondering if Alfred had been complaining about him not showing up.
He replied: How is his health recently? I was busy for the past two days.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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