Chapter 8

"Aurora? Are you alright?" This time Emily asked worriedly.

Aurora wiped her tears. "Holy F**k! Aurora kings, are you crying?" Susan asked bewildered and stopped the car unexpectedly. People cursed her, horns sounded wildly around us.

"Hey! Don't you know how to drive??" A man barked from his car window.

Susan gave him a middle finger.

"Susan…" Aurora jerked her hand inside the car and apologized to the man.

"Stop it! Why the hell are you apologizing to him, he was the rat!!"

The man drove away and Susan started her car well. "Got lucky we didn't get a ticket again, Susan!" Aurora chuckled.

She rolled her eyes. "I am up to a thousand tickets if it gets you out of this sad mood. Chill girl! And just forget about that Restaurant owner."

Her shoulders slumped again at the mention of Gabriel. "Susan, was I rude there?"

Susan sighed, her brows arched upwards. "Well! I won't say rude but you were kind of mean to him. I mean it was just a little water and you threw a big tantrum there. You created a scene in front of all his customers there, Aurora," she replied, parking the car in the garage and getting out of it with Emily and Aurora.

Aurora pinched her lips in a thin line. "What about him? Was there no mistake of his? He could have told me that he was not a server…"

"Well...what difference does it make? It was clear from the way you reacted that you were some rich snoot who was behaving irrationally. Now forget that I didn't even eat anything. Let's make some Ramen noodles. The rats in my stomach are fighting a wrestling match."

"No, I will cook something as punishment for laughing one you today. You both go get a show or something," Emily said walking to the kitchen.

"Ya! Well, I am calling dad, you go ahead and start cooking." Aurora told her who gave her a thumbs up. "Cool!"

Aurora went to her room and dialled her father's number. It kept ringing but he didn't accept the call. Aurora was worried for her father, after her mother's death he was the only family she had left and he never took care of his health.

She sighed and left a voice message. "Hey Dad, Umm! When will you be home? I was thinking about having dinner with you tonight. Do call me when you get free, bye! Love you."

On the other hand, Ethan heard the voice message of his daughter and handed the phone back to his right-hand man cum friend, Thomas.

Ethan stared at the man sitting in front of him, tied to the chair, screaming in painful agony.

"Has he said anything yet?" Ethan asked Thomas. The man spits on Ethan's shoes and earns a painful punch on his face.

"No, a loyal dog!"

Ethan nodded, punching again just to hear him cry and then without wasting a single second more he shot the man right between the eyes. "Send the body to Juan with a message that it will be him soon."

Thomas eyes the dead man and gives Ethan a curt nod. Once they were back in his office, Thomas handed Ethan a glass of his favourite whiskey.

"Your friend from Vancouver called," Ethan frowned hearing him.

"His son will be taking over the chair of Don soon. He had this strange proposition for you," Thomas searched Ethan's eyes before speaking the next words.

"What proposition?" He asked, taking a sip from his glass.

"Ryan hinted about a new bond between the two of us. "

Ethan raised his eyes and pinned them on Thomas. " What new bond?"

"It was clear from his talk that he was hinting at a marriage preposition between Aurora and Liam."

"His son and My Aurora?"

Thomas nodded. "I don't think it's a bad idea…"

Ethan raised a finger to stop him. "My daughter deserves the best in everything. Let the boy prove himself in our world-first then I will think…"

Thomas shook his head. "Ethan, we both know that Aurora has to marry a man from our world and I think Liam is a good choice."

"You don't have to remind me of that. But my daughter deserves a man who is worthy of her and this young boy, I want to make sure he can take care of my daughter. He asked for permission in my territory again, right?"

Thomas nodded. "Deny it, just like last two times. I want to see how he reacts? He might be my friend's son but I will judge him like I judge everyone else. Let's see if he could be a friend like his father or another addition to my list of foes?

Thomas sighed, he knew this won't end well. He heard about the man Ethan wanted to test.

Ryan's son was not the man to be tested like that, Thomas just prayed that he didn't get angered by it because Ryan's son's reputation preceded him everywhere he goes.

A monster who should not be poked! And Ethan just did that, now the question arises what would the monster do?

"Our world is based on traditions which we can't break. The rules are still the same, Liam. If you want my chair then you have to get married."

Liam Knight clenched and unclenched his hand on the paperweight trying to control the rage busting inside him while listening to his father, the current Don of Vancouver crime family.