Filed to story: Leaving the Country After Divorce Novel (Lucian & Roxanne)
Roxanne didn’t even let him finish his sentence before she bellowed angrily, “Don’t you think you’re going a little bit overboard? No matter what happened in the past, it should stay between us. Just come at me instead! I won’t say no to that, but the kids are innocent. They don’t know anything. Why are you doing this to them?”
She dug her fingernails into her palm in an attempt to calm herself down. Trying her best to stop her voice from wavering, she continued, “Yes, I shouldn’t have done that in the past. That was my fault, so feel free to get revenge on me for that. But please, can’t you find it in your generous, generous heart to forgive my kids?”
She looked down after that, feeling her eyes start to water from frustration.
The head of kindergarten had been right. It wasn’t hard for her to find another kindergarten for the kids, but that was only if Lucian didn’t interfere.
If he wasn’t willing to let either of them go, then she couldn’t do anything no matter how much power she had.
She scoffed at herself with that thought in mind.
She thought that Lucian and she had been on decent terms recently. Even though they hadn’t become best friends overnight or anything, they were still courteous with each other and had seemed to leave everything behind them.
Disappointingly, those feelings had been completely one-sided on her part. Apparently Lucian still only saw her as a menace.
Lucian’s heart clenched at the sight of the person in front of him acting all stubborn but still letting how wronged she was feeling show through.
He actually felt at a loss for words.
He even began to feel bad about even bringing the matter up to the head of kindergarten.
Estella was still playing with her doll on the carpet and couldn’t help but glance at Roxanne every now and then.
She managed to hear their conversation loud and clear.
When she heard Roxanne asking her father why he expelled the two nice older boys, Estella frowned in confusion. She expected to hear her father explain that he had already gotten rid of that idea, but he didn’t speak for a long time.
Estella pouted angrily.
Daddy’s a liar and a bad guy! He promised me not to expel Archie and Benny but still ended up doing it!
With that thought in mind, Estella tossed her toy onto the floor angrily and ran upstairs without looking back.
I’ll never trust Daddy again!
Lucian heard Estella running upstairs and felt an oncoming headache at the sight of her.
It was easy to figure out that she had overheard their conversation and misunderstood him again, causing her to throw another one of her little temper tantrums.
If he didn’t explain, she would probably get even angrier.
Lucian massaged his temples and said in a deep voice, “I did talk to the head of kindergarten before, but after Estella was done throwing her tantrum, I told him not to expel the two of them. I really have no clue what you’re talking about. If you want, I can ask him for you.”
Roxanne felt like he was simply faking it and said calmly, “Why should I believe you? It’s already happened, and the head of kindergarten is under you. Naturally, he would stand with you no matter what you say. Lucian, do you really think I’m an idiot?”
She wasn’t completely wrong.
Lucian could actually feel a headache beginning to clench in his skull, and he wanted to explain further, but the person in front of him had already stood up.
“I wish I never met you.” Her tone was calm, and she enunciated each word clearly. As soon as the words left her lips, she turned around and left.
At this, Lucian’s face immediately darkened, and he watched as she stalked off, almost boring a hole in her back with his stare.
As her figure slowly disappeared from his field of sight, Lucian took his phone out and called Cayden.
“Go and find out what happened at the kindergarten. Find out why the hell they went against my direct orders!”
Cayden could hear the pure rage in his boss’ voice and immediately obeyed.
Roxanne began feeling exhausted after driving away from the Farwell residence and looked around, deciding to stop by a dark roadside so she could simply zone out.
Why is Lucian doing this? If he knew he was doing this to his own sons, how would he feel?
What would her two kids feel if they knew how much their father hated them?
Roxanne didn’t even want to think about how the two of them would feel.
Besides, with Lucian there, she really didn’t know where to send her two kids to.
She was afraid that every other kindergarten would turn her down for the same exact reasons.
Roxanne felt full of guilt toward Archie and Benny when she thought about what might happen to them in the near future. Her eyes began to redden once again, and countless tears began to fall like a string of broken pearls down her cheeks.
She took in two deep breaths and forced herself to calm down.
This had finally made it clear to her that Lucian would never accept Archie and Benny as his own.
Archie and Benny only had her now, so she had to be strong for them.
Luckily, it was just a matter of not going to kindergarten. It was a good opportunity to really draw clear boundaries with Lucian.
From today onward, she would make sure they no longer had anything to do with each other.
Roxanne sped back home after thinking things through.
The kids had already eaten, and Madilyn was watching a science channel with them.
The three of them stood up and rushed toward her when she walked in.
Her two sons could tell that their mom wasn’t in the best mood and hugged one leg each, looking at her in concern. “Mommy, did something happen? You look so tired.”
Roxanne’s heart warmed up at the sound of their concern, and she did her best to force out a smile. “Nothing’s wrong. Just some stuff at work that is a bit hard to deal with.”
Knowing how hard their mother’s job was, the two boys didn’t question it and comforted her, “Mommy, you can definitely do it! You’re the best!”
Roxanne nodded and looked at the time, ushering them to go upstairs and sleep.
The two of them obediently went upstairs, leaving only Roxanne and Madilyn in the living room.
Madilyn could already tell that her best friend was feeling down the moment she walked in and asked, “What happened? Don’t even think about lying to me. I could tell you were lying just now.”