My Stubborn Mistress - Chapter 359

Evening…

Like they’ve planned earlier, Levi picks up Madison at the store before sundown. She and Levi took another road, avoiding crossing more people are the best. They’re taking a slow pace, enjoying the moment together and the scenery of old Paris when there are no buildings and establishments in Paris yet.

Before they headed home, the store owner gave her vegetables, fruits, and a few cents for her service of the day. On their way home, they bought spices and bread for supper. Hands are full, Levi fidgeting because he can’t hold Madison’s hand while walking on this lakeside road with a beautiful sunset scenery.

“Where a thousand diamonds shining upon the sunset…” Madison murmurs.

“Huh? Is that the poem earlier? I begged you to forget it.” Levi sighed. He felt too embarrassed because of his past self. “I cannot imagine how hilarious I was in my past life. I could feel like, I’ll bring this shame to the grave!” Levi shook his head and covered his face.

“Please, don’t tell our future children about this…” Levi pleaded. His face is like a cute puppy.

Pfft. Madison giggled, but her heart flutters when Levi mentioned their future children. In a sudden, she could see a scene of him playing with their children. It made her teary-eyed. She wants to kiss him, and she cannot wait to marry him after everything went fine. And so looks up and prayed. She then glanced at the wrapped one more time. She’d thrilled to know what’s inside.

“What is in your hand?” Levi asked, noticing the finely wrapped cloth in her other hand.

“Mama, give it to me.” She said, she’s the one who made it. So I am excited to know what’s inside.”

“Hmm… can we even bring that to the future?”

Madison looked at Levi. He is correct. She can’t bring anything in the future, and she can’t burn it once they’re back in the future. But she wanted to cherish whatever it is. Then how she could keep it?

“Hey, Mrs. Girlfriend…”

Levi called out her using his new endearment, and when she looked up, Levi planted a kiss on her forehead. It touched her of his cute gesture, and so when they were entering the woods, Madison took her veil. She walks ahead of Levi then stops in front of him.

Puzzled, his eyes gleaming when Madison tiptoeing and planted a kiss on his lips. Ugh, he badly wanted to grab her waist and hold her chin, but his hand is full. Luckily, Madison prolongs her kiss before she pulls her lips from his.

“And that’s your consolation,” she said afterward then walk ahead.

“Eh? No way! That should be my reward!”

Madison giggling and make long steps to tease Levi, let him follow. They were laughing when Quinn saw them reaching the house.

“Hmm… is that our food?”

“Yes, papa!”

“All right, bring them inside and I will make a soup.”

“That sounds tasty, brother Quinn!”

“You will help me.”

“Aye, sir!”

Honestly, they don’t have the luxury like while stuck here in the past. They were just ordinary people; who do not belong to this era…

Inside the abandoned hut, Quinn lit a fire in the small fireplace to give them the warmth they needed. Levi began washing the vegetables and peeled them after while Madison just sits on the bench in the table and watching him after he told her to just do nothing since she’s the one who was working for them to have enough food for the day.

“If we don’t travel back in time, I won’t experience this kind of life,” Madison commented like she is not with herself. Watching the fire, her lips tear with a smile. “I realized, I don’t mind this kind of hardship. If Mama was with us? Everything will be perfect for me.”

Levi and Quinn meet their gazes. They cannot agree more to her opinion. “That’s for sure,” said Quinn, then notice the wrapped clothed on the table.

“What is it?”

“Oh, I received this from mama!” happily, she told Quinn about their encounters today. “And then, she came back just to give this.”

“Have you checked what’s inside?”

“No. Not yet, Papa. I might cry one more time, so I’ll just open it when coming back here.” She inhales. Full of anticipation, her hands trembled. Slowly, she opens the red lace that tied the wraps, and then she unfolds the cloth. To her surprise, she found a face veil inside. It was too beautiful.

Upon tracing the embroidery, the veil is soft and lovely. Tears already flooded her face. How amazing that she could still cry a barrel tears.

Levi who seated next to her; pulled her head and allowed her to cry more. Quinn just quietly watching Madison cry on Levi’s shoulder, even he is touched by Marivella’s gesture.

She must feel the connection toward Madison. He is sure that Marivella could feel it like him to Madison. In this world, they’re living in things that cannot explain even by science. He has been pondering about it all the time… this strange energy that pulls them to travel time. Then all this strange event they were often facing. Everything is unimaginable for an ordinary person’s point of view. Quinn had these thoughts.

Later than, Madison calming down. She picked up the face veil and put it on her face. Watching at the small mirror hung on the wall, she carefully tied the face veil at the back of her head. Marivella personalizes it with her embroidery of a beautiful butterfly. She turned around to show it to Levi and Quinn.

Froze, Levi dropped his mouth. “Madison?”

“Hey, are you making fun of me?” Madison is puzzled the way Levi reacted upon seeing her wearing the face veil Marivella made.

“No. It’s just, reminding me something.” Levi fell in deep thought. “The painting in the library!”

“Which painting?” asked Quinn curiously, he began remembering all the paintings that hung in that room.

“Have you not recognized, brother Quinn? The painting in the library? I grew up, but not one mention who paint it until recently I learned the truth after Uncle Edward died; butler Pete told me it was Doctor Charles, however, no one knows who she is.”

Levi strides closer to Madison. He takes off his coat and puts it on her head. “It’s more like this, exactly the one in the painting.”

“The face mask truly the same in the painting.” Quinn agreed. He completely recalls now, the woman wearing a face veil in the painting. “The embroidery is truly the one in that painting… then this was mean, it was you, Madison.”

“Really?” Disbelief, she can’t comment on anything. This only means that the painting is evidence of how the past meets the future in a certain time, and that time is happening… this might be the reason they keep traveling back here.

That even before they were born in the reset life, and everything happens in their present life, the past already meets them.

This also proves that whatever written in the book says as a book. Reset life is necessary, so it will fulfill what happens in the past. Since in the beginning, it has connected the present lifetime to the past.

“But why the other mama is kept traveling to us, Papa?”

“That is one thing we must find an answer. Why does the Cassandra in our lifetime keep switching to the one that supposes not existed any longer?”

“There must be a reason, why, brother Quinn.”

“I just hope, that Lady Isabella has answers into this…” Quinn sighed. He badly wanted to see Cassandra sooner.

“I am hoping too, Papa. We have to find the people who could tell us why mama is keeping going back to that lifetime.”

“You are correct Madison…” This is one of the mystery they must solve sooner.