140 You are beautiful (1/2)

When she first saw the woman appear from her mother's room, she instantly recognized her. Her mother finally had her youthful appearance back. Although it was only temporary, it still showed that it would be possible to completely regain it.

At first, she only felt happy for her mother, but then she realized that something was different, which shocked her to her core. Unlike before, there was now an aura around her mother, something she could feel as soon as she laid her eyes on her. She got the feeling that her mother was in control and if she gave her an order she would only be able to obey. This came from the combination of power and dominance, that she seemed to contain.

And this aura was something she had never felt before from her. Making her wonder what happened when she and Ivan were alone because it didn't seem as simple as her regaining her youthful appearance. Instead, there seemed to have something more changed inside her mother.

When the others realized, that she was staring at something, they too turned toward Celine. When they saw her there was a look of confusion on their faces. They hadn't seen her like this before and as such were unable to recognize her. Her transformation was just too drastic. Combined with the aura pressing down on them, she was completely unrecognizable for them.

”Mom”, Lucia exclaimed, shocking the others out of their state of confusion.

After she exclaimed, she jumped up and rushed towards Celine.

Celine smiled happily when she saw her daughter running towards her with a happy smile on her face. It had been a long time since the two of them had smiled like this. Because of her situation, there was always some sadness in their smiles, which only they could perceive, since they managed to hide it well. But now there was nothing like this in their smiles. They just showed pure happiness.

”Mom, you are ok? You are all healed now?”, Lucia grabbed her arms and excitedly asked, not showing any respect towards her mother and more acting like she was her sister or a good friend.

But Celine didn't have a problem with it, in fact, she liked it. It was much better to see her daughter be bold enough to grab her instead of being careful around her in fear of hurting her.

”Yes, I'm all better.” She hadn't checked her base essence, to find out if it was completely healed but from how she was feeling and from the strength coursing through her body it should be.

”That's great, that's great.”, Lucia hugged her mother with all her might.

Celine lightly patted her back, while hugging her back.

Meanwhile, the others had also stood up and waited for them to regain their calm.

”Wow, you look really beautiful.”, Irena said in an admiring voice. ”I'd never have expected you to change this much.”

”Yeah, you are so beautiful now.”, Jane chimed in as well. ”Where is dad?”, she then asked.

At the mention of Ivan, Celine looked embarrassed. ”Um, something went wrong and he is now completely exhausted.”

There was no way, she would mention what had happened between them. At least not to those assembled here. But at the same time, she wasn't able to provide them with a good explanation as to what went wrong, because she didn't know it either.

”Huh? Then what about going to the theme-park?”, Jane asked, focusing on what was most important to her. From the way Celine acted, she knew that nothing bad had happened to her dad.

”I'm sorry. I don't think he will be able to go today.”, Celine apologized. It was her fault after all.

”Oh.”, Jane looked disappointed. She had been looking forward to going out to play.

Pia saw how disappointed the little girl was and hurriedly proposed, ”We can go another time after Ivan recovers. So how about we all play here today? You can show us around and then propose a game, alright?”

Although Jane understood that she wanted to shift her attention, she accepted the proposal thankfully. Although they wouldn't be going to the theme park, meeting new people and playing here wasn't bad either.

”Alright. How about I'll show you around in the garden? It's great and there are lots of things to play with.”, she grabbed Irena's hand and lead them outside. Leaving only Lucia and Celine behind.

The two of them sat down on a couch and looked at each other.

”It is great that you are alright now.”, Lucia once again said. It seemed like she still couldn't believe it.

”Yes. I too never expected to recover so soon.”, Celine agreed while leaning back, enjoying the comfortable couch.

”So what are we going to do now?”, Lucia asked.

”What do you mean? Of course, we will stay here and support this family with all our might.”