If Aurora wasn’t Ray Jones’s biological daughter, then Aurora’s father would not have been Mason’s stain to bear.

Setting aside whether her real parents were anyone of status and significance, even if she had no parents at all, that alone would be a far better fate than being the daughter of Ray Jones.

“Mason sent you to show me this and try to deceive me? How ridiculous! Otherwise, why would he just stop mid-sentence and leave?”

“It must ...