Chapter 97-shadows of the past

Aurora couldn’t sleep that night. The walls of her small room felt like they were closing in, and the events of the evening played over and over in her mind. Lucas’s cruel words echoed in her ears, but it was her own defiance that scared her the most.

She had spoken back to him. She had challenged him.

And she had survived for now.

The house was silent, the kind of quiet that made her skin crawl. She sat on the edge of her bed, staring at the moonlight ...