Chapter 234: You what!
Valerica and I then both stood up. I watched as she began stretching out her body. The longer she continued the stretches, the more surprise she allowed to show on her face. "Goodness, you really did get rid of my ailment didn\'t you? Is there anything I can do to repay you?" Valerica asked, causing a certain bystander to appear from her skulking.
"What ailment mother? Are you injured?" Kathrine said worried, forgetting the fact she was ready to throw down with her mother not too long ago. Valerica was surprised to see Kathrine. \'Shouldn\'t she be exercising?\'
"Kathrine? How long have you been there? Shouldn\'t you be exercising? Apollo and I stepped out of the room for only a moment after all." Kathrine looked at her mother with confusion before she replied. "Mummy, we had that conversation an hour ago, I have been watching you for twenty minutes."
Valerica\'s face for the first time in a long time, turned red at the thought of her daughter listening to her moans for that long. She decided to subvert the conversation and answer her daughters question after clearing her throat.
"So anyway... Yes I was injured, I have been injured for a long time actually my baby. After your Daddy died, you had already left for your military duty so I was all alone and did not want to deal with my emotions so I drowned myself in training. I began using our strengthening technique almost all day everyday as It would keep my mind occupied and not think about his death. At the time I was not aware of the flaw in the technique and over time It created something that your new man has just diagnosed in one glance, that took me nearly three decades of coming up empty, as a Psionic Clot. It had been painful for decades, but was ignorable. But now?"
Valerica smiled as she looked in my direction. "Baby where did you find this miracle worker? Should we finally divorce that fat slob out of the family and deal with the consequences? I am so excited to have a competent son in law!" As she said this, she ran up to me and planted a kiss on my forehead before hugging me and pulling my head into her chest pillows.
I was stunned silent, not because of the action, but because I realised this was the first time in a while that I did not have to arch my back in order to get a nice standing hug. \'Thats it, when we get back to home world, I am making Orchid bigger than myself again.\'
As I continued to allow myself to be suffocated by Valerica, as I thinking about genetic science seriously for the first time in a while, She and Kathrine continued their conversation like it was common place to suffocate a man between Valerica\'s breasts. "Mummy I am sorry to disappoint you, but Apollo is not my \'new husband\' like Hank kept on saying."
Valerica, having an obviously incredible first impression of Apollo, began to hold him tighter as if deny the claim her daughter had just said. "W-what? Why not? I want to be called mommy again. He is only a baby, if you marry him he can call me mommy too."
Kathrine did a double take in shock, clearly not expecting that reaction from her mother ever. "I, uh... Moving past that mummy, Apollo is an Arcon of a fallen planet. He was to be betrothed to my new business partner on Ecumenopolis 4 at birth and Is now living with her. We are lovers who care deeply for one another, but cannot be officially together for a multitude of reasons. Also my little niece, Hailey has expressed a desire for Apollo to be her marriage candidate *GASP*!"
Kathrine gasped realising she had just spilt a big secret right in front of Apollo. She looked at him nervously for any reaction, but his eyes were closed and looked seriously concentrated on something. "Apollo?" Kathrine said to try to get his attention. When that did not work, she took a breath of relieve. "Phew! Now as I was saying I-"
Kathrine paused as she saw her mother seething and clutching Apollo even tighter. "That Dickheads spawn is trying to steal my new son from me! ARGH! I will kill them all!"
Kathrine flinched at hearing that before raising her hands in a quieting gesture. "Mother! Do not lightly spout out about high treason! And loosen your grip on Apollo, he is turning blue." She then pointed to Apollo who was somehow still in deep thought despite clearly no longer breathing.
"Ah!" Veronica gasped in realisation and loosened her grip. Having been released from the warm hug, I finally snapped to and realised both women were staring at me. "Oh sorry, did I miss something? I was thinking about my work." I said assuming they had asked me something.
Valerica then looked at me and stroked my cheek and then my shoulder with a tender affection that confused me despite liking it very much. "Oh you missed nothing miracle worker. Can you go and find my living room? It has a nice fireplace just down the hall. We will meet you there and get to know one another in a moment, I just need a word with my darling daughter."
\'Ah, they need some privacy, got it.\' I thought now realising why they were looking at me. With a smile I replied. "Sure I will go, a nice fire sounds lovely right now. I will see you in a few minutes." As I left, the mother, daughter duo stared at me right until I left the room, making me feel bad for spacing out so I could have helped them out quicker.
As Veronica was about to begin speaking again, Kathrine brought her finger to her lips and held her other hand out indicating to her mother to wait. After ten seconds, she lowered her hands and explained. "Sorry, Apollo has really good hearing when he is not concentrating like he just was, best to wait a moment."
Veronica nodded in understanding before getting all worked up again. "Why does that brat want anything to do with my new son? She has no redeeming qualities other than the fact she joined the military, she is a grade A bitch!"
"No my little sweetheart has a soft core, you just don\'t get to see it because you act like a bitch towards her as well." Kathrine responded causing Veronica to gasp. "Kathrine! How dare you call your mother a bitch! I should put you over my knee right now! But that is besides the point. How the fuck did they even meet?"
Kathrine then proceeded to tell her mother a condensed version of everything that had happened in the last few months. "So you have fallen in love with someone you were spying on? Oh daughter, that is so cliché." Valerica said with a glass of wine in her hand.
"It wasn\'t really spying, it was just garnering known facts about him and relaying them to my niece." Kathrine said, causing Veronica to reply flatly. "Spying." Kathrine rolled her eyes before she continued.
"Well of course I agreed back then, I did not know him yet and I love Hailey, so it was obvious I would do it, but now..." Valerica interjected and continued her daughters train of thought. "But now things have complicated, you have shared a deep intimate connection with him and even brought him back to meet your sweet old mother. At least you stopped reporting to Hailey when you realised what you were doing was wrong. I knew I raised you right."
Kathrine looked away after her mom said that and Valerica caught onto it. "What have you not told me? Kitten? Look at me and tell me what you have done. If you have jeopardised my sons safety in anyway, you are going over my knee." Valerica said, already decided she has now adopted Apollo, paperwork be damned.
Kathrine wriggled a moment before she came clean. "So Hailey called me after I invited Apollo here. I told her I was done spying as Apollo is a good man." Veronica smiled. "That is my girl." She said happily, but her face crumbled when Kathrine continued. "But I did tell her that Apollo would be at the celebration tonight and she is most definitely going to be in attendance."
Veronica took in a long inhale through her nose and took a sip of her wine. She then yelled at the top of her lungs.
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