"Well, I’m glad you ladies had some fun," Kaiden chuckled but didn’t explain himself any further about the ’contact in high places.’
Instead, he added, "It’s about time Julia and I leave. Are you going to be fine?"
"Yes!" A chorus of positive replies welcomed his question.
"Alright, if any trouble arises, you can contact me through the awakened platform if you search for Valhalla’s Sinners. Remember, nothing happened today. No words to anyone. Trust me when I say this: you don’t want to make the person who helped us out today into your enemy."
"Yes!"
They soon separated. He helped the weak Julia into the taxi he called, which stopped at the gym where Aria should be just about finishing today’s training.
The duo waited in front of the gym for the girls to come out. While doing so, Julia started trembling due to nervousness. "What if she hates me?"
"She doesn’t."
"But what if she does?!"
"Then you get on your knees and apologize, or whatever it takes to earn her forgiveness."
"But what if that doesn’t work either?!" she cried hysterically.
"Woman, keep it together. If it doesn’t work, then you keep begging, pleading, doing whatever else it takes. And if she absolutely refuses to forgive you, then you pack your bag and move out of her life."
"... Yeah... I owe Aria this," Julia said while squeezing Kaiden’s hand, which she was holding all this time.
"Kai? M-mom?" Aria gasped when the three of them came out of the gym at long last.
Kaiden only smiled. He didn’t want to speak up, it was not his moment.
"I-I’m so s-sorry!" Julia shouted while kneeling in front of her daughter, with great sorrow and regret being evident in her shaky tone.
"Mom, what are you doing?! Get up, people are watching!" Aria tried to raise her mother from her kowtowing position, but despite Julia’s horribly weakened physical state, the girl seemed to struggle. The mother was adamant about staying glued to the cold ground.
"I don’t care! I’m begging for my daughter’s forgiveness, I couldn’t care less what strangers think of me!"
"I-I don’t really get it, I’m not angry with you for anything! But sure, I forgive you!" Aria decreed with great confusion.
Kaiden couldn’t help but have his smile turn up a notch. ’I thought so. She didn’t harbor any resentment in her beautiful heart despite what she went through because of Julia. She’s a literal angel...’ he exclaimed inwardly as he eyed Aria, who finally managed to forcefully lift her mother off the pavement and hug her.
"Ladies, let’s go home. Aria should spend some alone time with her mother," Kaiden said to his two confused lovers, who were dragging themselves with extremely exhausted bodies. Aria must’ve put them through the wringer quite badly.
"Sure..." Luna moaned painedly. Nyx was too tired to respond; she just nodded.
"I’m happy for you," Luna stated while gently patting Aria’s shoulder as she walked by her toward Kaiden. "Yeah... Enjoy..." Nyx added, with so little energy one could mistake her for a zombie.
"I don’t know what you did, but thanks, Kai!" Aria shouted at her boyfriend with eyes full of overflowing love. The mother who was distant toward her all this while was now crying her heart out in her arms.
Did he truly solve her problems within a few hours? She didn’t know how he did it, but her man was most certainly the absolute best!
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