Chapter 148: Her Awakening (2)
Madeline’s eyelids fluttered open to reveal a pair of glossy dark orbs, she was met with the familiar magenta color of her room ceiling, staring confoundedly at it as her mind was thrown into a dire state of disarray and confusion.
Pertinently, her irises expanded gradually before she gasped in terror. Out of impulse, she pushed herself up into a sitting position when her heartbeat began to palpitate against her chest, the memories of what had occured in the house of the Marquees filling her brain and generating a headache that made her wince softly.
"Maddie." Cas’s gentle voice made the young perplexed woman look in his direction to find him sitting on a chair beside the edge of the bed, and she released a shaky breath of air as her eyes raked over him, the tension in her heart ceasing recklessly.
She met his eyes that showed his relief upon seeing her awake, and since she was still feeling overwhelmed as her body hadn’t settled yet, Madeline couldn’t resist hugging the young lad who protectively embraced her smaller body, feeling desperate to confirm that this was no longer a dream, and that everything that happened was just a figment of her own imagination.
"Cas...Cas... Catherine?" She pulled back from his warmth to look at him, her apprehensive gaze frantically searching for answers as her voice came out hoarse. "What... What about Catherine?"
"She’s fine." He replied, his tone sounding unusually calm as let out a breath, "Orson’s taking care of her in the next room, you should focus more on yourself now, are you.... feeling alright?"
Madeline’s lips parted as she wanted to give a response, but nothing audible came out of it as she averted her gaze elsewhere. She was unsure of how she should feel or how she was supposed to feel. The complexities in her life were already getting tougher and now, there’s a strange light coming out of her??
"Here." Cassian handed her a glass of water he had kept by the side table, and Madeline looked at him with a sense of gratitude before receiving it and drinking it in one go.
He collected the glass cup when she had emptied it, and Madeline wiped off the remnants from her lips before taking a deep breath and using the little silence Cassian had given her to gain control over herself once again, trying her best to push her trauma aside.