Chapter 10: Comfort
"Milady!!" Aletha squealed once it was just the two of them. Her face had a genuine smile on it and her eyes were watery with emotion from the happiness of seeing Arabella again coupled with worry about how she had been.
[Milady looks as beautiful as ever! Hmm, but did she lose some weight?]
Arabella couldn’t suppress the smile on her face as Aletha walked to her as quickly as she could and embraced her.
For her, it had been twenty-two years since she last saw Aletha. Thus, Arabella hugged her maid tightly.
It felt so weird to have a warm feeling in her chest after being so cold for so long. But she didn’t hate this feeling. It was something she didn’t know she sorely missed.
Holding someone dear to you. Arabella almost forgot it was this pleasant.
"I missed you so much," Arabella spoke honestly about her feelings for the first time in so long. She couldn’t help the tears from escaping her eyes.
"I missed you so much too, Milady" Aletha rubbed her back gently.
’So much has happened to me after I departed from Lobelius. So, so much," Arabella wanted to say it all.
How her twenty-two years went by.
How she suffered for so long.