Aurora was desperately throwing him looks, trying to signal him.

He was standing up for her, and that made her heart warm.

But the more he did that, the more the Jackson family resented her.

"I know... No matter what I say, someone like me—with no background—will never be good enough in your eyes to become Mason's wife," she said calmly. "But what I still want to make clear is, we've chosen each other. And once that choice is made, we're not ...