INICIAR SESIÓNAURORA’S POINT OF VIEW."Silas," Kai said, his voice dropping to a menacing octave. The wit was gone, replaced by a low, vibrating rigidity. "You’re late. We were just finishing up the introductions.""So I see." Silas came to a halt, leaning his weight onto his silver-topped cane. He looked at the velvet silk of my dress, then at the black heart-shaped pendant around my neck. A small, chilling smile displayed on his lips at once. "You always did have a flair for the dramatic, Kai. But I believe you were supposed to be celebrating a merger with Morgana, not... this.""The merger is happening, Silas," Kai drawled, though I could feel the tremors of suppressed rage in his muscles. "Just not with the daughter you picked. I decided I needed an upgrade. Not only the girl I am madly in love with.” I paused, noting the way he said it. It was so raw, so energized….I almost believed it was true. “But also the legitimate daughter.”“Legitimate?” Silas echoed, glaring at me and then my father, w
AURORA’S POINT OF VIEW.The silence that followed Kai’s last words?It was lethal. Everyone stared at him with a mix of anger, tension, and fear. Dad looked lively but had been quiet for the past three minutes now. He only stared at Kai with a look as if he realized he could not do anything.The thing is, while my family had money, we did not have wealth. The only reason the De la Vista name holds any merit in this world was because my great-grandfather was able to strike gold one day on an exhibit overseas. He pulled everything he had into it and was able to create money for his son and my father. However, nothing built with hands as inexperienced as my father’s could last.They thought I did not know, but my uncle made sure my mother knew everything. He sympathized with her because she’d built the company to what it was before she left. Dad knew nothing about business or management. Mom did all of it.Once he kicked her out of his life and business, the company started to fall to ru
CLAPBACKS AT DINNER.AURORA’S POINMT OF VIEW.The silence that followed was absolute. My father’s face went from red to a ghostly, sickly white."What did you just say?" Armando hissed, his eyes flickering to Morgana."You heard her, Armando," Kai intervened, his voice smooth as silk but twice as deadly. He reached out, his hand sliding from my back to my waist, pulling me flush against him in a move of pure, unadulterated ownership. "Your perfect daughter is not so perfect after all. It turns out, she is exactly like me.The difference is that while I fell in love with someone so special, she chose to be as cheap as a slut looking for bread. I don't do second-hand, and I certainly don't do disloyalty."“How dare you speak to my daughter like that?” My father hissed, stepping forward slightly but stopping before he could even reach Kai.“I did not see this energy when your wife called my fiancé a whore? Preferential much, Armando?” Kai chuckled. “What a hypocrite.”“Aurroa! Would you
DERANGED.AURORA'S POINT OF VIEW.He kept his hand firmly on the small of my back, his thumb grazing the exposed skin of my spine, sending jolts of electricity through me that kept my spine straight.As we walked over to them, the surrounding lights caught my dress, making me appear even more radiant than we planned. Their reactions….I wished I could frame it forever.Dad’s stoic gaze transformed to a frozen one, clearly transfixed by me. Denise…oh, sweet, evil Denise. She had on my mother’s dress, her pearls, the very ones my dad had gifted her for their seventh wedding anniversary. She clutched the pearls as if she were having a heart attack, her eyes wide at the sight of me.Morgan, on the other hand, looked as if she could not believe it was me. She searched behind me, probably looking for the scholarship rat she’d bullied all these years. She would never find her…not anymore. I had nothing to lose. My mother was now being cared for…. They would all burn for the hell we’d endured.
AURORA’S POINT OF VIEW.I rubbed my sweaty palm against the dress for the third time in five minutes. We were parked right outside the mansion, a place I had not set foot in since my fourteenth birthday. The car felt hot for some reason. Any moment now, we would walk in there, and I would see my father and stepmother for the first time in over four years. A part of me wondered what my dad would think about me….would he be proud to see how much I'd grown? Would he feel guilt at the fact that he had not checked in on me for so long? Would he even ask about mom?However, at the same time, I remembered….he could have been involved in the plan to poison my mother to her death. I wanted to trust him, but he kicked us out without a second glance, claimed my mother was a whore, and that I was not his daughter. Not even when my uncle presented him with the DNA test results….he still did not care.I wanted all of them to burn for it.Kai wanted an uprising, but I would give him a revolution.
AURORA’S POINT OF VIEW.Returning to Mountville, I had not known what to expect. Sure, my father had ordered me home after three years of kicking my mother and me out of his life. When I heard the news, I thought he would finally embrace us again. However, he only let me be a scholarship student, and never checked in with me ever since I arrived. This was the first time I would be doing something he did not like…well, besides my refusal to abandon my mother for my place in the will, I would finally choose me. I had no other choice. When a tiger has it’s foot on your neck, it is only for so long until you decide to rescue yourself….I could not let my mother take her last breath before getting her the treatment she needs because my father still believes I am not loyal to him.I could no longer be his precious baby girl…I had to be my mother’s battle axe.No matter what.Kai had moved like a storm. Quick, fast, and instant. Less than an hour after I took his hand, he made a phone call.







