Chapter 396: Epilogue: A Doting Mother
Elaine immediately turned to face Annalise and a warm smile spread on the young lady’s lips as she entangled her hand with her mother’s. Neither of them needed to voice out the name of the person Annalise was talking about.
"Look how cold he is, Mother. It is my welcome banquet and he doesn’t find it necessary to appear here even for a moment." Elaine quickly complained to Annalise, knowing fully well that if there was one person in the entire world who could control Esmeray then it was no one other than her dear mother.
Annalise smiled warmly at her daughter’s complaint before she provided the help that the young lady so desperately sought. "If you want your current situation with him to improve, you will need to make the first effort, Ela. You are fully aware of how careful he has always been when it comes to you, almost to the point that it has unconsciously created a wall between you guys and he’s hesitating to break past that wall. If you want your relationship to improve, you will need to bring down that wall. "
"But what if I ended up pushing him away from me in the process?" The insecurity was so clear in Elaine’s voice that it almost made Annalise’s heart ache for her little girl.
She tucked a loose curl behind her daughter’s ear before answering - "Don’t tell me that a millennia-old man is making you question yourself. You are your fathers’ daughter, taming a mate shouldn’t be a hard task for you."
"Are you trying to imply that fathers tamed you too?" Elaine was quick to tease which brought a huge smile on her lips and sparkle in her ocean blue eyes that she inherited from Annalise.
"Of course, not. Don’t think too highly of your fathers. After all, I was the one who tamed them back in the old good days." Annalise lied straight through her white sparkling teeth like it was no hard job for her.
"If you say so." Elaine wasn’t buying her mother’s lie as she had heard enough stories from her fathers about how they turned their really shy, conservative, silent, and secluded wife into her current bold, confident, funny, and social persona. Still, just to keep her mother happy, she pretended to believe her words.
"So... how far can I go?" Elaine asked and the hesitation in her words was more than enough to explain what she was talking about, causing Annalise to arch her eyebrows high as she turned to fully face her daughter.