Chapter 76

"Aurora, love. Are you alright?"

Aurora looked at her father's tired face. His eyes were full of worry with thin lines around them. She blinked back the tears and forced herself to smile in front of him. She knew that a single tear from her eyes and he would go haywire with worry.

"I am absolutely fine, dad. Please don't stress yourself over me," she tried to reassure her father but Ethan shook his head. "I need full details, love. Tell me what exactly happens? Is there something you are hiding from me, Aurora? How did you end up on that island?"

She gulped. A sole chink in her composure and her father would know. She wouldn't tell her father about Liam. She could not tell him about Liam but a small voice within her whispered slowly.

Why? What is stopping me from telling Dad about Liam? He would be punished for what he did. He would be punished for how he treated me.

But again she couldn't speak the words. As if something was stopping her from doing