Alex opened her eyes again, sighing loudly, she sat up and looked at the girl in front of her, this is supposed to be Bella, Roselyn step-daughter and heroine, the reason of her death. Not directly, of course, but the villain killed Roselyn to take revenge on Bella and make her miserable, which coincidentally is the plot pusher, because of Roselyn death, the heroine goes on a journey with the hero and their feelings grew stronger with every fight and challenge.
Of course, this is Yujun, the moment she received the memories, she knew that, how could she not? She read the book seven times, and the chapter about Roselyn ten times, but why? Yes, she did feel bad for Roselyn and Mr. fiancé, who gets dumped and becomes the main villain, but that didn't mean she wanted to come to this world, especially not as Roselyn, the woman gets killed in the fifth chapter and one horrible death to add to it, who wants to transmigrate into that kind of miserable person? Not her!
And that woman dared to tell her to take care of Bella and live? Like how? The villain will kill her without blinking an eye, without anyone knowing or even realizing it, until it's done and she is up in the sky or back to her own world.
"Mother, I mean second-mother, the doctor said he will get his equipment and come check on you, please stay awake until then." Bella's voice rang out in the quiet room, cutting Alex's thoughts short.
"Okay, thank you." Alex gave a small smile but soon after dropped it, remembering Roselyn's behavior towards Bella or anyone else in general.
"You're welcome. I sent a letter to father; he will be here in the evening." Bella said, keeping an elegant look, not someone talking to his mother.
Alex thought of how Roselyn will respond and made a mental note to herself and said: "You didn't need to disturb your father, he is busy with his work, I probably only had a heatstroke."
Roselyn behavior towards Oliver, was always distant and awkward, she couldn't communicate with him, making her push further away from her and her small world, which eventually lead to Oliver rarely talk to her or ask about her whereabout. Bella tried multiple times to arrange meetings for the both of them, but it never works, either her father leaves for work or her second mother will make up an excuse to leave. Both of them, didn't try because they didn't want to, the husband who lost his wife and doesn't want to accept another one, the wife who lost hope in love and family.
A more reason, for them not to get along is the huge age gap they have, Oliver is almost 50 years old while Roselyn is 21 years old, she is only 5 years older than Bella, but that didn't stop Bella from treating her like a mother figure and longing for her motherly love, that she lost when she was eight.
"Mother, father is your husband, he should take care of you and visit you when you are sick, that's the right thing to do." Bella argued, seemingly mad, her mother always acted like this, distant and doesn't accept any help.
"Bella, we both know why your father married me, he didn't want me as a wife, you should understand that by now." Alex said, looking at Bella with cold eyes, no emotions inside of them.
Bella stood up, anger and sadness shown in her eyes. "No! I don't want to understand! Second mother is a part of our family, I don't care if father didn't want to marry you to be his wife or to be my mother, all I know is that you are our family and we need to take care of you. Please, let us take care of you."
Alex smiled a sad smile, with a look of despair on his face. "I wish I met you a long time ago, before all of this happened, we could have been friends. You could have helped escape, but fate is fate." Alex translated Roselyn's feelings and thoughts, that were kept inside for a long time.
"It's never too late mother, just let me help, I want to be able to let you sense the beauty of life, mother looks like she given up on life, I don't like that, mom always said, life is full of fun things we ignore to swim in our sadness. Don't let your sadness eat you mother, I don't want to see you wither any longer." Bella had tears in her eyes, that she roughly wiped.
"Come here." Alex called out, extending her hand to Bella, even though she knew she was out of character, but she couldn't let a 16-year-old girl cry while she sat down watching her, that isn't human like, even Roselyn would have done something.
Bella sat beside 'Roselyn' on the bed, her tears still falling, as she kept looking down. Alex took her hands in hers and said: "Bella, you are a sweet, kind girl any mother could ask for, I am certain your real mother is proud of who you became, but I feel ashamed of what I have done until now, of how I behaved, letting you suffer alone. I am sorry. I want to make it up to you. Mother wants to try changing, will you help me?" Alex said with a very small smile, Roselyn's soul, she assumed, told her to take care of Bell and this is the first step to do it, even though she full OCC here, but Bella and Roselyn never really talked, today was their first official meeting in months.
"Yes!" Bella replied excitedly, as she almost jumped up because of her happiness. "We will have so much fun! We will go on picnics, shop for clothes and practice our magic together! And eat breakfast together! Even lunch!"
"Yes, we will do all of these things and more." Alex chuckled at Bella's silliness and innocence, taking her for an eight-year-old child, who just found they were going to a theme park.
"We should invite father as well! He will agree if we talk to him and convince him." Bella jumped on her, looking at her with puppy eyes.
As soon as those words left Bella's throat, a knock on the door was heard, making Bella stop jumping on the bed and her movement, looking at the door.
"Come in." Alex said, loud and clear, wondering who was at the door.
The door opened and a man in his late forties come in the room, as he was about to say something, he stopped and looked at Bella's figure on Roselyn's bed and frowned.
"What's happening here?" A man stepped in the room, a majestic aura surrounding him.
"Father." Bella got up from Roselyn's bed and stood up straight.