CHAPTER 22

He shook her for a while and her uncle was already calling for an ambulance. It was quite a scary scene and everyone were having cold thoughts.
“What's happening?” her grandma asked solemnly as she entered the room.
“We don't know,” her uncle replied while shaking his head after he hung up the call he made for the ambulance.
Her dad still holds onto Rora and she could see that he was worried and stressed. She had never seen him like that before. Rora began to shake and scream as if she was being chased by someone. It was the first time she saw someone fighting so fiercely while they were in such a state. Her dad failed to hold her and even fell to the ground. Whatever Rora was fighting it was something bad.
“Please, don't. No!” she screamed hysterically and opened her eyes that were teary and in a state of panic.
Rora was crying, tears rolling down her cheeks, her eyes red and puffy and her body was still shaking violently. Rora hugged her knees as if she was a frightened child. What did she really saw to behave like that?
She didn't know what to do neither do her dad. She watched as her grandma walked towards Rora and she hugged her tight.
“It's going to be okay child. I'm here, I will not leave you,” her grandma continued to say those words softly in a calm tone until Rora calmed down.
Her uncle left the room and returned after a few minutes. He had sent away the ambulance.
“She just needs to lie down and rest. Lucian, make sure you won't leave her side. If it happens again just calm her down,” Joan instructed Lucian and her dad nodded in agreement.
Rora was put to bed before they all left the room including her dad.
“Will she be okay?” Jewel asked nervously, still worried that she may faint again.
“She will be, don't worry,” Joan said and looked at her dad, “now go, let's talk tomorrow. If she isn't well then we will go to the hospital.”
“Okay mother, goodnight," her dad said and returned to his bedroom.
Jewel dragged her feet to her room not knowing what to do. If she hadn't rushed out of the room earlier then she might have been able to stop that from happening. She rarely cared but when she thought she was going to lose her she didn't feel so good.
She became speechless, she couldn't do anything but just watch as others does everything. She was so excited about being the maid of honor while Rora was dying. She was bad and blamed herself until she finally went to sleep.
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Lucian couldn't sleep at all the whole night. Whatever his little girl was fighting, it was too much. It felt like she was running from something and watching something very painful it made her seize the whole night. He had to keep on wiping her sweat the whole night that he only slept in the morning.
When he woke up Aurora wasn't in bed. He got worried and woke up. He looked for her in the bathroom but she wasn't there so he began to look for her in the whole mansion. He met Jewel on the way and it seemed she read his mind.
“Good morning, dad.”
“Good morning princess,” he greeted warmly his daughter.
“If you are looking for Rora she is sitting outside. She wanted to be alone,” Jewel informed her dad since the man was wearing a worried expression on his face.
“Okay, thanks baby,” he said gratefully and went outside to look for her.
He found her sitting in the gazebo outside. He reached her and kissed her on her head and she turned her head to look at him. Her eyes were puffy from all the crying, she didn't look too well.
“Good morning, Lucian,” she said and he felt different. He couldn't remember the last time she called him by his name.
“Good morning. How are you feeling?” he asked warmly, not wanting to pressurize Aurora.
“I'm feeling much better now, I'm sorry about last night,” she said sadly as he sat down.
“It's okay as long as you are fine. What really happened to you?” he asked very worried and hoping to find answers from her that had been daunting him the whole night.
“You wouldn't want to know,” she said trying to brush the topic away.
“I can handle anything,” he assured her, dying to know her untold secrets.
“I used to have a boyfriend back in high school.”
“Oh, is that so?” to be honest he didn't understand why her high school boyfriend would have anything to do with her nightmares many years later.
“Yes, I really loved him so much. He meant the whole world to me; I could die for him and do whatever he wanted but one day after I graduated from high school, I went to see him and there he was; tied in a chair with blood everywhere.
He had been tortured badly and I just stood there without doing anything. He looked at me with those loving eyes, telling me that it was okay but I knew it wasn't. I couldn't run away, they got me too and tied me to a chair, bind my mouth so that I couldn't scream and look for help.
I watched as they beat him and whenever he tried to faint, they would pour water on him and awake him. They did that continuously for thirty minutes while I sit and do nothing but cry. It came to a point where I couldn't cry anymore. I just opened my eyes and watched him suffer.
They took a gun and shot him right there in his stomach and showed no mercy. I couldn't even ease his pain as he died right in front of me. Feeling so helpless I don't know how it happened but I fainted and when I woke up, I was home and okay. I thought it was a dream so I wiped my tears and went to his house only to find out that he was dead and his relatives already held a funeral.