"B-But you can't do that, Kafka!...It's fine if it's with me since it's inevitable that you would have such thoughts if you saw me in such a vulnerable state, but not my mom since she already has a family of her own!" Bella cried out as she jumped down from the sofa to confront me, ignoring her fear of the spider for the sake of her mother's dignity, which surprised Camila as she didn't expect her daughter to speak up for her.
"Why?
What's it got to do with you if I have certain thoughts towards your mother or not?...Camila has already told me that you've never bothered about her in the past and have always pushed her away, so why are you suddenly acting like you care about what happens to her now like the caring daughter you never were?" I asked as I put my hands on Camila's shoulders and sensually rubbed her collarbone to her embarrassment, while Bella watched in dismay.
"...Or are you simply arguing with me in place of your father, who definitely wouldn't want someone else looking at his naked wife?"
"No! Definitely not!...I couldn't care less about what happens to that man, and I can't believe that I'm saying this, but my mother deserves way better than that filthy man!" Camila gasped at her daughter's confession, which made Bella blush for supporting her mother when she always did the exact opposite.
And she even took it a step further by saying, "...And as much as my mother and I have fought in the past, she's still my mother at the end of the day and the same person who's raised me my whole life, so I, as her daughter, definitely have the responsibility to fight for her and protect her so that she doesn't feel uncomfortable with a man like you touching her with obvious ill intentions in mind!"
Wow...I always thought of Bella as an ignorant and spoiled brat who didn't appreciate the love she'd received from her mother. But seeing how she's aware of how blessed she actually is and how someone like her mother was never even worthy of her own father in the first place makes it seem like she knew about it all and has simply been silent about it till now.
But at the same time, even knowing all that, I don't understand why she continues to treat her mother without any of the respect she deserves, and I'm guessing she probably has her own reasons that made her have a twisted attitude towards her mother when she actually seemed to care about her and wanted to protect her dignity.
"Bella!~...Y-You~..." Camila cried out and looked like she wanted to reach out her hands and touch her daughter's face to see if it was actually her who was standing up for her and not anyone else, since she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"B-Be quiet, mom! Don't think that I'm doing this for you and get ahead of yourself!" Bella exclaimed with a flush on her face and threw out a random excuse, so that it seemed like she didn't actually care about her, which was useless since it was obvious what she truly felt.
"Y-You two!~ What's wrong!?~...Why are you suddenly laughing?!~" Bella cried out and stopped posing when she saw both of us laughing at her.
"And mom, I have no idea why that deviant you invited into the house is laughing...But why are you laughing along with him and not coming to my side already?!~" Bella urged her mother to come over so that she could protect her, but this only made Camila giggle more, like her daughter was a clown that was playing an act.
"Ahh!~ Just what is going on here!~" Bella cried out in frustration when her attempt to help her mother failed and unexpectedly ended up with the culprit and victim laughing at her together.
"Sorry~ Sorry~...I'll tell you what's going on here, Bella~"
I said as I wiped the tears off my eyes from laughing too much, after seeing how Bella looked like she was going to cry as well at being made fun of by both of us when she was genuinely trying to help her mother out.
I then said a simple lie that I made up on the spot, which was true in certain ways, by saying,
"Actually, your mother had told me earlier that the relationship between the two of you was quite unstable and that it was so bad that she said that you wouldn't even help her if she was in trouble...And I said to her that there's no way that can be true and that you would definitely help her out if she was in danger, no matter how bad both of us got along."
"And just earlier, I saw an opportunity to prove Camila wrong, so I acted as if I had ill intentions for getting close to your beloved mother, and I tried to make you save her like I hoped after seeing my act, which Camila also quickly caught on to and got into the act as well." I said, which made Bella look at Camila with a doubtful gaze, and she seemed to be looking for confirmation from her mother, to which Camila quickly nodded her head, seeing that she had no other option, which made Bella let out a sigh of relief, seeing that it was just a prank and nothing serious.
"And just like I had thought, I easily proved Camila wrong, seeing as to how you jumped into action the second you thought she was in trouble and were even ready to go fist to fist with me to save her, even though I'm pretty sure even a child could knock you down with the way you posed..." Bella blushed in indignation that all her efforts were being made fun of, while Camila looked at her daughter in a daze, as she couldn't believe that her daughter even bothered to make any effort to save her, as she for sure thought her daughter would've left her alone in such a situation.
"Hmph! It's not like I did it to save her anyway, and I wanted to fight you to save myself since I was obviously next after you were done with my mother!"
Camila obviously didn't believe her daughter's lie and looked at her with a motherly gaze that was full of love and affection that she had once lost after finding out that her daughter still cared for, which made Bella glare at me for revealing her feelings that she had been wanting to keep secret for whatever reason...