“Are you in a bad mood, Mommy?” Archie and Benny looked at her with concern.

Roxanne was taken aback. She thought she had hidden her emotions well in front of her kids, but they saw right through her ruse.

“Why did you ask?” she asked nonchalantly, glancing at them in the rearview mirror.

Archie’s face creased in bewilderment. “You ignored Essie just now. Did Mr. Farwell annoy you?”

The slightly unsettled feeling gnawed at the pit of her stomach at the mention of Lucian.

She ...