CHAPTER 24

That hit him very hard. Just what kind of life did Aurora lead? This was too much for one day, he didn't know what to do so he just stood in the tub and left without saying anything. When he put his robe, he saw Aurora crying.
He just hurt her, brought so many bad memories in just one day. Her stories were too much as if they had been fabricated. Most women were so good at manufacturing stories so that they may gain some attention. He wasn't going to fall for that at all.
There was four days left till the wedding and he didn't want any trouble. He called Victor and instructed him to find the medical history of Aurora and find someone to check up her story. He needed the feedback as soon as possible. He changed his clothes and decided to leave the mansion altogether.
“Where are you going?” his mother asked him.
“I need some fresh air. I will go to the office now,” he said his tone too complicated to grasp.
“You are leaving her alone?” Joan couldn’t believe her son.
“She will be fine. You are also here,” he said and kissed her on her cheek.
He got into his car and drove off. He just wanted to get away from all this drama. She couldn't give him children because her parents removed her womb? Why anything so horrific didn't show up on the first report? Was someone playing a huge prank on him or something?
There was so much that couldn't be explained in her story and he was going to find all the loopholes before the wedding. He wanted to know more about her, it may be hard but he was going to do it and receive the answers that he seeks. He decided not to go to the office but visit an old friend and have a couple of drinks.
He just wanted to forget everything. He would go mad if he loses her. It was crazy but he knew that he was falling for her and it was already too late to go back to normal. Just like a virus, Aurora had corrupted him and he just couldn't let go.
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She cried when she left the bathroom. For the first time in many years, she finally told someone about the horrible things her foster parents did to her. And the man she was falling for abandoned her when he learnt she wouldn't be able to give him what he wants.
If he could abandon her because of this little thing then what would happen when he learns about the untold truth she couldn't say. She couldn't even imagine telling anyone about it and yet it was a burden she carried every day on her shoulders.
She decided to get some fresh air when she met Joan outside the room.
“Joan, what are you doing here?' she asked wiping away her tears trying to look composed.
“Are you okay dear?” Joan was really worried and seeing her wiping those tears, she felt suffocated.
“I am now,” she lied, not wanting to make Joan more worried than she was right now.
“Okay, let's take a walk outside there is something I need to show you,” Joan suggested and Aurora followed her in the end.
Joan took her outside and went to another gazebo that was a bit far from the mansion. Even if someone wanted to eavesdrop, it would be impossible. Joan wanted to have some peaceful conversation with Aurora.
“What are we doing here?” Aurora asked curiously as she looked around.
“Something has been stuck on my mind ever since I first saw you and I have a feeling you know something,” she said seriously and Aurora wondered what Joan had found about and what she wanted to talk about.
“What is it? Please enlighten me,” since Aurora was curious, she didn’t mind listening to Joan and hear what she wanted to say.
“Did you find your birth mother?”
“Why do you ask?” Aurora asked calmly but her mind was going crazy.
“I want you to be honest with me. Do you know something? Remember not to lie to me,” she warned Aurora but her tone was demanding.
It seemed she had been caught and since she had already lost the man she wanted, then it was better to just get everything off her chest.
“I suspect that your sister might be my mother though I'm still not sure,” she said looking at Joan with complicated eyes.
“Is that why you approached my son?” Joan was a bit angry when she heard that.
“I never approached him. I wanted to get closer to Jewel and find the truth like that. I never expected Lucian to resort to this. Like I once told you, my foster parents left me a huge amount of money when they died.”
“I will believe you this once,” what more could Joan say if it is not this.
“Since you asked, do you know who my real parents are?” this is something that Aurora had been dying to know for many years.
“I don't know about your father but your mother was really my younger sister,” Joan told her and she just froze.
So, her hunch all this time was true. And if June was her mother, then that meant Lucian was her cousin and they were related. She had slept several times with him; she was even in love with him.
She was starting to bare her soul out for him even though they had a fallout earlier this morning. The world began to spin around. Why was she so unlucky?
She stopped investigating the story because she didn't want it to be true and now that it was confirmed she wished she never started it in the first place. There was absolutely no way she would be marrying Lucian now; it was all over and she had done it to herself.
Without saying any word, she stood up and began to just walk. She just needed to get away from Joan, from everyone and just to be alone. Why did she get born into this world?
Just when she started to be happy, just like that it all just gets snatched away. Why should life be this way for her?