Chapter 77

(Aurora’s POV)

The silence was killing me. I waited for my mother’s response, and when I got none, I turned to her.

“Mother, I am sorry, but I cannot change what I feel for him; I just can’t. I have tried so hard, but nothing can change it.”

“After all he has done to you, Aurora, you still want him?” she asks

"It was strange to me too, but he changed Mama; he stopped doing all those things he did to me, and I fell in love with this new part of him.”

“Aurora, I know he changed; he would never have brought you back if he hadn't. I imagine he would torture you to death for something you had no control over; it wasn’t even partly your fault, but he brought you back. Still, do you really think a man like him could turn into a good person that so easily?”

“Mama, I did something bad... I betrayed the one person who helped me; I am a traitor, and maybe I deserve all I got; some things do flow in the blood.”

“Why would you say that?” She asks,