Angelica had come prepared to see the woman who had been distracting Kai.
She had spent the entire drive to Aethelwulf rehearsing what she would say to this person, this girl who had somehow wormed her way into her son's head and made him think she was Jessica.
She had been curious, yes. She was only a mother, after all. A mother whose son had refused to move forward with his engagement for illusions.
She had expected to find some ordinary-looking woman with ginger. But what she hadn't expected to see was the actual Jessica standing there in a Jescore Tech uniform, holding a tray, looking at her with no recognition in her eyes at all.
Angelica gasped, and her hand flew to her mouth, and for a long second, she could not draw breath.
It was her.
It was truly Jessica.
