Chapter 15: Lullaby And A Surprise!!!
Evelisse let herself laugh too. Just this once, she’d forget the pain of Emily. Just this once, she’d believe this moment was hers.
Seraphina lowered her back to the rug-soft floor and cupped her cheeks. "I’ve missed your voice calling me that. Would you... would you like to relearn the lullaby we used to sing together? I’ve been humming it to myself every night since you’ve returned."
Evelisse blinked. ’Relearn? Lady, that would mean I knew it in the first place. In my past life, I sang in a cracked hospital bathroom and prayed no one was listening.’
She resisted the urge to quip out loud and instead gave her most innocent smile, tilting her head ever so sweetly. "I’d love to learn it again, Mommy!"
[♡ Affection Points Increased: +4]
[Total points accumulated so far: 815♡]
Seraphina practically glowed. "Then come here, sweetheart."
With practiced ease, the Queen scooped Evelisse into her arms and moved to the velvet chaise lounge near the sun-drenched windows. She sat gracefully and settled Evelisse on her lap, wrapping her arms protectively around her daughter’s waist.
Evelisse relaxed into the warmth, head against her mother’s chest, listening to the faint rhythmic thump of a heartbeat that was calm and constant—so unlike the hollow, echoing silence she remembered from the hospital monitors in her past life.
Seraphina began to hum, a gentle melody that carried like wind through willows, soft and lilting. Then she started to sing.
"Sleep, my rose, in starlight spun,