TWO MONTHS LATER…

AURORA’S POV

“Aurora, it’s been two months,” Harper said. “You’ve kept my mother locked away all this time. Don’t you have a heart? She’s practically family and—”

I cut her off immediately.

“Don’t start lecturing me, Harper. You treated me like a servant in my own parents’ home without ever caring how I felt. And now you’re talking to me about compassion? Seriously?”

“Aurora, forget the past and focus on the present. Please. We can work everything out. Just let Mom go. I don’t even know if she’s okay anymore.”

I rolled my eyes.

“Wow. The famous Harper is begging?”

Her silence only encouraged me.

“I thought...