Chapter 157

I kiss her forehead, wiping more tears away with my hand. “Come here, lay down. Let's play some music, okay?” I tell her, guiding her to a sleeping position. I fetch her phone on the nightstand and open her music, I select the playlist I always hear in my car and hers whenever she connects her phone. 

Aurora is still trembling and sobbing when I lay down with her, Dermot Kennedy's Better days begins to play. I've heard this song so many times in her presence that I'm no stranger to the lyrics, I've never read into them. But now, I understand what this song means to her, I fully acknowledge the depth of the lyrics. She silently hums to the song, I lay with her, trying to soothe her, caressing her head like it would transfer some of her anguish to me.

“This song is made for you, it truly is for you. You've suffered enough my darling, now you'll never hurt again. Never” I let out her, and I mean every single word I say. Nothing and no one will ever hurt Aurora, and if they tr