Aurora’s POV
The beach was crowded. I had forced Alexis to let me go.
It was a short moment to get away from my problems, but it felt like an eternity of waiting and watching for someone to come along and rescue me from the ocean as if I were some sort of lost, injured bird that had somehow ended up in front of his door and he could only save me by taking care of it.
After what seemed like forever, we were pushing through the crowds trying to go back home in order to get there before dark and get ready for dinner.
Something strange happened, something very strange.
My eyes had collided with an old woman.
She froze, staring at me
without blinking even once. She stood on the edge of the shore and looked at me like an owl. Her expression was one of absolute shock and horror, almost as if she couldn't understand how she was seeing me standing there like an apparition. It would have been comical in any other situation but when I realized that it was a real person, that they could se
