Jack looked utterly helpless when he heard those words because he knew Hector was threatening him. Rather than letting Roxanne and Jessica meet each other without my presence, I might as well just be there to keep Jessica in check.
In the end, Jack agreed to it. “All right. I’ll try to contact Ms. Jarvis. But I can’t promise she’ll agree to it.” With a wide smile on his face, Stephen said, “Thank you. Let me know when she gets back to you.” Jack nodded indifferently in response.
Stephen chatted with Hector for a little while and asked about the Damaris family’s recent situation before standing up to excuse himself.
The moment Stephen left the Demaris residence, a dejected look replaced the smile on his face.
That night, Jessica was hammered when a few men brought her home. Stephen was in utter shock when he saw that and thought his daughter had been taken advantage of.
To his surprise, those men told him they were the Farwell family’s men and that Lucian had ordered them to send her back.
Right away, Stephen knew his daughter had crossed someone she couldn’t afford to mess with.
Sure enough, the Hightower family’s business partners called to cancel their contracts the next few days. They also couldn’t find people to work with for their latest projects.
Seeing that the company was facing financial difficulties, Stephen had no choice but to contact Lucian. He apologized to Lucian, but he was told that there was someone else he had to apologize to.
Puzzled, Stephen went home and interrogated Jessica. That was when he found out about the person he owed an apology.
Yet, he couldn’t just look for the person right away, so he thought about asking Jack to act as the middleman.
He deliberately mentioned his dead father to sell Hector a sad story so that he could gain Hector’s support.
In the end, it worked, and he managed to set a meeting with Roxanne.
What’s her relationship with Lucian? Why is Lucian willing to do so much for her?
Meanwhile, upon finishing his work, Lucian thought about the three children at Roxanne’s house. She has to go home to make lunch for the kids, right?
At that thought, Lucian drove to Roxanne’s house.
In the mansion, the children had just finished a whole bucket of fried chicken.
Upon hearing the doorbell, the children thought Roxanne had returned, so they opened the door without checking the intercom.
When they saw the person standing before them, they were taken aback.
“Daddy!” Estella was the first to react. She ran toward Lucian and was about to reach out to hug his leg when he noticed how oily her hands were. Upon taking a closer look, he realized she was wearing a pair of disposable gloves that was covered in grease.
She instinctively grabbed her wrists and moved away from her.
That was the first time Estella had gotten rejected by Lucian. She widened her eyes in confusion.
Lucian furrowed his brows and sized up the children. The corners of their lips are oily. What did they eat?
“Hello, Mr. Farwell,” Archie and Benny greeted when they came to their senses. Lucian nodded slightly. “Is your mommy not back yet?”
The kids nodded obediently and glanced at each other guiltily. They had thought that it was Roxanne who had returned and almost screamed when they opened the door.
Fortunately, Estella had greeted Lucian first, saving them from embarrassing themselves. Lucian’s frown deepened when he saw their reactions. “What did you guys have for lunch, then?”
As he asked, he scanned the house and saw the bucket of fried chicken on the dining table. “We had drumsticks!” Estella was still reveling in the excitement of eating fast food for the first time and did not realize the look on Lucian’s face. “It was delicious!”
Lucian’s eyes darkened when he heard his daughter’s answer. He then lowered his head and looked at the three children. Not only were their faces covered in grease, but they were also all smiling in satisfaction.
Evidently, they were extremely happy with what they had for lunch. Lucian suppressed his anger and asked in a deep voice, “Who sent them?”
Estella turned toward Archie and Benny. Although she knew Madilyn, she didn’t know how to introduce her to Lucian. Seeing that Estella was keeping mum, Lucian thought the children had ordered takeout on their own.
Right then, Benny piped up, “It was our godmother! Mommy told her to send us food.”
Lucian knitted his brows and gave it some thought. I think I know who their godmother is. Disdain flashed across Lucian’s eyes when he recalled the previous time he met Madilyn. That woman doesn’t look reliable.
Having learned that it wasn’t Roxanne’s idea to feed the children fast food, Lucian said in a gentler tone, “Don’t eat too much of this in the future.”
The children weren’t pleased when they heard those words.
Estella tilted her head in confusion and asked, “But why? It’s really, really yummy.” She looked at Lucian aggrievedly. “Unlike me, Archie and Benny had it before. Why didn’t you ever let me try it, Daddy?”
Feeling a headache coming, Lucian pinched the space between his brows and replied, “It’s unhealthy.”
Besides, with their social status, they never needed to go out and buy food as such.
In fact, Estella had fried chicken before. It was just a healthier version prepared by their in-house chef.
Estella wasn’t satisfied with that answer. She blinked and wanted to tug at Lucian’s shirt sleeve to question further, but Lucian pushed her back the moment she approached him.
Estella felt even more aggrieved when he did that.
“Take off your gloves. They’re dirty,” Lucian said.
Only then did Estella realize what was going on. She slowly took off her pair of gloves, then returned to stand before Lucian once again after Archie and Benny brought her away to wash her hands.
This time, Lucian didn’t stop her from approaching him.
Estella tugged at Lucian’s shirt sleeve and uttered in a piping voice, “Why is it that Archie and Benny are allowed to—”
Hearing that she was asking about the fried chicken again, Lucian interrupted expressionlessly, “They’ll have to refrain from eating that from now on.”
Archie’s and Benny’s faces fell. Daddy is good in any way, but he abandoned us in the past, and now, he’s even stopping us from eating fried chicken…
Just as the children were about to bargain their way out, they heard someone’s footsteps coming from the entrance.
They held their tongues and turned toward the door, only to see Roxanne holding a bouquet of flowers in her hands, looking puzzled.
“Mommy!” Archie and Benny dashed toward her in excitement, seeing that she had returned.
Roxanne, however, was looking at the man in her living room with a frown on her face. Lucian? What is he doing here?
She glanced at the flowers in her hands and felt somewhat guilty.
Lucian had noticed the flowers as well, and a wave of annoyance washed over him once more. She’s rejected all my flowers before this. But now, she’s holding a bouquet someone has gifted her. It’s most probably from either Larry or Jack. What does she take me for?
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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