Chapter 5

Emily joined them both. "Oh no! Don't tell me he declined."

They both glared at her with murdering eyes. "He did!" Both said at the same time making Emily snatch two glasses of Cocktail from the passing server.

Aurora snatched one from her. "I need it today. To hell with consequences." She muttered and again gulped it.

"Wait for me here," Aurora again went to meet Kevin one more time and again his answer was the same.

"Arh!" Aurora screamed silently under her breath. Her eyes went to the lasing server and she picked a glass of some alcoholic drink and took a large gulp.

On the other hand, Liam was enraged when Grace told him what Aurora said. He fisted his hand, and walked in search of Aurora.

"Mr Knight? It's so nice to meet you here," It was the mayor of BC. Liam smiled and politely shook his hand.

"Mr Wendell, nice to see you here," His eyes searched for Aurora but couldn't find her and he couldn't walk away from the man. Apart from Mafia, Liam knight was a legitimate business or so he wanted people to believe in. Finally, after the man left. Liam's eyes wandered in search of Aurora again and he found her alone with a drink in her hand.

He started walking up to her and found Alexandrios in-between. "Bud?"

"Alex, introduce me to her." He ordered his friend who looked at Aurora and was stunned.

"Ethan, she is.."

"I know who she is and I want you to introduce me to her, now."

Alexandrios didn't like Liam's tone but he could see there was something on his mind so he ignored it. "Come."

"Miss King, you look beautiful…" Aurora heard the words again and she was irked.

Why can't they just stay away from me?

"Buzz off!" She muttered without even glancing at the owner of that voice and walked away from there, leaving Liam and Alexandrios standing there.

"Guess the woman was not in the mood of compliments…"

But Liam was not listening to his friend. His eyes darkened in fury. The vixen had just insulted him.

He was furious. Liam fisted his hand and walked behind her, he came to meet her and he will meet her. End of discussion!

Aurora was in the back of the gallery, there was a small garden. She kept staring at the liquid in the crystal glass. Her friends would be searching for her but she didn't care, not at this moment at least.

She wanted to call her dad and ask him to make Kevin accept her offer but no, she would not do it but she would call him and ask him to arrange for a meeting with Kevin. "Arrogant owl!" She sniffed.

"Bad day?" She heard a voice and got irritated again. Another one of her admirers. She knew she was beautiful and she didn't need anyone to tell her that. She was tired of these flatters.

Aurora turned. Her vision was swirling around but she still managed to be sober at least in her voice. "Get away from me, don't you get tired. Go get a life!"

Liam was stunned. "I came to start a conversation…" he still tried to be polite.

"Oh fuck off dude, I am not interested in your ugly face so get the fuck away from me." She snapped in anger.

And Liam had enough. Done being gentle with this vixen. He grabbed her hand tightly, "Shut up!" His eyes turned dark.

Aurora was in a rage. "Ha! How dare you touch me, you bull?" She shouted and threw the remaining drink on his face. Liam instinctively closed his eyes and his grip on Aurora loosened a bit. But he didn't leave her hand. The girl needed to be taught a lesson for insulting Liam Knight.

"Get your dirty hands off me, arrogant owl," She snarled, attacking his face with her sharp nails.

"F**k" he cursed as her nail poked in his right eye. Liam's grip on her hand losend a little and she pushed him away from her, Liam lost his balance and landed straight into the water fountain, and Aurora laughed seeing him like that. The sound of her laughter piercing through Liam's ears as if someone had poured hot lava into them.

"Aww! Poor Dirty pig!" She mocked before running away from there, leaving an angry Liam behind.

Liam's nose flared in anger. He wiped his face with his hand. His one hand was still on his right eye. "You will be punished for this, Aurora. Severely punished."

He decided then and there that the vixen was going to be his wife even if he had to paint the whole Canada red with blood.

I will make you mine. Mine to punish and mine to pleasure, Wife! Till death do us apart!

End of the Prologue

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"You have no idea how much I love you, my soul. You don't know the pain I went through in your absence."

"As if I was in any better condition my darling. I missed the warmth of your arms every day. The memories of the time we spent together in each other's arms were the only thing which kept me alive in those long winter nights."

Aurora looked at the person sitting beside her and stood up with lightning speed. Eww! I am not going to mimic their s*x scene with you, Em!"

She scrunched her lips to one side and glanced at Aurora's body. "If only you had been a man. Lucky you, I am straight," Emily said, waving her hand evasively and switching the television off with the remote.

"And who said I would have been interested in you if I were a man?" Aurora asked. Emily gave her an unimpressed look.

"Fudge you!" Emily said as nowadays she was trying not to use curse words because when she went to meet her parents in the town her mother hated her colourful language.

"Not interested!" Aurora sang and licked her blueberry ice cream from the spoon.

"This is the second tub of ice cream you finished, Aurora. I don't understand how you could still have this model-like figure after eating like this? I feel ashamed of taking all those aerobics classes to look like you."

Aurora licked the ice cream spoon one last time before raising her brows to her friend. She eyed Emily's alluring body and rolled her eyes.

"Really, girl! You look like a model, yourself but of course, I know how hot I am, so thank you," Aurora said with a smirk. Emily poked her tongue out and gave her a middle finger and both friends burst out laughing together.

Aurora king was the perfect beauty with her blonde hair, blue eyes and sharp facial features. She was not less than a goddess and not to mention the perfect height and figure even being a foodie.

"Girl, I was thinking about trying that new Italian restaurant you ordered the take out last week," Emily suggested and Aurora's mouth watered at the mention.

"That was…" she moaned, rubbing her hands together in response and agreeing to check out the restaurant again.

"Let's call miss etiquette and then off to that restaurant," Emily said but not before rolling her eyes. Both Susan and Emily are friends with Aurora. They both live in Aurora's house and love her but when it comes to them both personally, they loved each other just like fire and water!

"Wait, let me call her," Aurora said.

"Hey Susan, Let's go to that Italian restaurant, I'm craving some Italian food."

Aurora could still taste the deliciousness of the risotto she tasted. It blasted all her taste buds and left an ecstasy in her mouth.

Exactly after twenty minutes, Susan was still in her room while both Aurora and Emily were waiting for her.

"Are we stupid waiting for her for twenty minutes? What the hell is she still doing upstairs?" Emily barked.

'Susan!'' She yelled her name in the thigh octave voice that Aurora closed her eyes.

"You will make me deaf with your shriek, Em!"

"I want her to become deaf instead of you but nothing works on her."

Aurora kept her mouth shut after that, she didn't want to be involved in world war three.

Been there, done that.

And after that one experience, she promised herself not to get involved in their fights anymore.

"Stop screaming will you. Unlike you, I was working." She snapped at Emily who looked on the verge of attacking her.

"Oh yeah! Working with your ONS. How was work, Susan? Have you met our dream man, finally? Emily mocked and in return received a death glare from Susan.

Aurora could hear the dramatic music in the background while they both started their unending arguments.

"Alright, no need to start your fights again. I am hungry and want to eat. So shall we leave?" Aurora tried to be the peacemaker again because if she had not done that, their argument would have hit the roof.

I can't have a day of peace without their fights.

"Drive," Susan ordered Emily, who snatched the keys from her without a word.

"Wait, I should be the one driving," Aurora said and both her friends glared at her as if she had grown two heads.

Aurora gulped, her cheeks turned red remembering the dramatic incident that happened two months ago when they were coming back from the pub night.

"I was drunk!" She tried to reason with them and they both raised their brows, reminding her about the mess which followed the incident.

"And I ended up hitting the traffic officer. That fudger! Still, gave me a ticket." Emily seethed, thumping her foot on the road in anger like a teenager.

"You tried hitting on him with his wife present there, we got lucky that Ethan saved us that day or we would be facing a trial in the court." Susan reminded Emily who pinched her lips in a thin line.

"I tried to help at least."

Aurora shook her head in shame. She still recalled how angry her father was with her the next day. She was the daughter of Ethan King, a billionaire and philanthropist who was helping people around the world and here, his daughter was drunk driving and banged the traffic officer's car.

Just the thought of spending her time in a jail cell gave her goosebumps. Aurora King could live without anything except for her dad, good food. Someone to talk with because she was a chatterbox. Not to mention these two girls who both had made her life colourful with their presence.

"Alright, let's go already, I am hungry."

"You are always hungry, Aurora!" They both said at the same time and then gave each other an unimpressed look before settling inside the car.

Aurora knew should keep herself out of reach for these high-calorie foods but she was lucky to have a body that never gained weight no matter how much she ate. She was not size zero exactly, her body had curves in the right places which made her look sexy. Most importantly, She was confident about her body.

"Girls, I have to share something with you both," Susan said while Emily was driving. "I think I found someone who can represent our brand."

"Who?" Aurora asked as the atmosphere inside the car changed from jovial to serious.

"Kevin Rawls, that designer of the year. We need to contact him and ask him to join our brand."

"Hm, I can see what I can do; after all, I am famous on social media, so it won't be difficult for me to be in contact with him," Aurora told them. Being Ethan King's daughter came with a lot of perks and one of them was her followers on social media.

Both her friends nodded, and the rest of the drive ended up in silence.

Opening a Jewelry business was the dream of Aurora and her friends. All of them were trying hard to achieve that goal. It was not difficult for Aurora to open a brand with her father's money and power; she could have done that easily. But it was not only her in the team; Emily might be Aurora's friend, and she would have done anything to help her, but Emily was prideful.

She joined their team on the condition that they would not take any help from Aurora or Susan's father. Susan agreed immediately because she would rather eat poison than take help from her father. They are not on good terms due to some reasons. And Emily, unlike Aurora and Susan, didn't come from a rich background. Her parents owned a little farm in a village and they loved their farm life. Emily on the other hand had big dreams so she came to the big city of Churchill.

Once they reached, Aurora eyed the beautiful entrance of that restaurant. She didn't know why but this place gives her a kind of solace. The beautiful wooden furniture on the top of the roof with exotic plants and the cool breeze of air that passes through her hair.

She felt like her mother was caressing her hair. Alas! The beautiful memories of her mother. She used to be the centre of her universe but after her death, it was just her father and her. Shaking her head to clear the memories away she looked around for the place to sit but luck was not on her side.

There is no place to sit inside. That's the problem with those small and famous restaurants. They pack up immediately after opening up. "Here goes our lunch plan!" Aurora said, her stomach crumbled in hunger.

"Are we going to eat lunch standing on our legs, Aurora?" Susan asked in her high-octave voice, raising her brows dramatically.

Aurora rolled her eyes. "No. A server will come here to invite us inside and give us the best table here," she imitated her but as if God had just granted her a moment of luck. A man did come to them and invited them inside.

"Wow! That was quick," Emily perked.

The delicious aroma of Italian food and the smell of garlic and herbs made Aurora's mouth drool over the food.

The man took them to a small table for three in the corner. It was a little away from the other tables and near the manager's office.

"Here is the menu, madam." The server said, handing them the menu card.

Unlike the five-star restaurants, Aurora

usually goes with her father; the menu there was not fixed on the leather cover.

It was a thick red and green paper that was laminated to protect it from getting damaged with continuous touching from numerous people.

"The place is small, but the aroma of food is mouth-watering," Susan whispered. The man left, leaving them to decide their order.

Emily opened it and started reading it:

"Caprese Salad with Pesto Sauce.

Panzanella.

Bruschetta.

Focaccia Bread.

Pasta Carbonara.

Margherita Pizza.

Mushroom Risotto.

Pasta Con Pomodoro E Basilico. Blah! Blah!Blah!"

"There is a lot to decide, Aurora. Hmm! I am confused?" Emily said, reading the menu.

"Try Mushroom Risotto. It's delicious." She told her, deciding she would be having the same with Focaccia Bread and Pasta Carbonara.

"Drinks?" Susan asked again. "You know what, let's order the classic Italian red wine for us. Aurora will be having a lemonade," she said, deciding for her which Aurora didn't like, but one glare from her was enough for her to know her 'I can make my own decisions' slang was not going to work here.

In Susan's words, Aurora should wear a signboard saying, 'Don't give me liquor. I am Alcohol sensitive.' A single glass of liquor was enough for her to lose her mind.

Almost twenty minutes passed, but no one came to take their order. They looked for the server, but as if he had disappeared in the air.

"Let me find a server, I can't wait for anyone to notice us and come to take our order," Aurora told her friends and stood up to find a server. She was about to walk over to a waiter she saw taking orders from an old couple, but suddenly, a man bumped into her, and she gasped in pain.

"Can't you see?" She complained, rubbing her hand to soothe the pain.

"I apologize, but it was you who bumped into me, " he said, and Aurora raised her head to see the man who dared to blame her for his mistake.