Chapter 266: Congratulations
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When Madeline opened her hazy eyes again, the first thing her blurry vision took notice of was the familiar ceiling. Blinking spontaneously till her vision eventually adjusted to the light of her surroundings, Samantha could hear soft whispering voices speaking right beside her.
"I think she’s awake!"
"Is she?"
"Ah! Thank heavens!"
"Don’t frighten her, she needs to calm herself first." Said a concerned voice followed by the soft clicking of footsteps.
Among the mixed voices that kept murmuring to themselves, two voices sounded familiar to her ears, and when she turned her head to see who it was that conversed by her side, Elaine was sitting at the edge of the bed, her hands stretched out as she palmed Madeline’s left cheek, and she asked.
"My dear, how are you feeling?"
"Mother?" Madeline’s eyes widened momentarily when Elaine’s concerned face appeared before her vision, and she froze. For a second she believed it was a hallucination that might have been triggered from the side-effect of the barrier spell, but when she felt Elaine’s comforting palm on her cheek, waves of different emotions clouded her bleeding heart as she involuntarily sat up on the bed, hugging Elaine who impulsively returned her hug as the young woman suddenly began to weep hard in her arms.