Chapter 34

Susan and Emily tried having breakfast but couldn't gulp it down their throats. They were praying for their friend's we'll being to whatever third power present in the world.

"I am scared for her, what if she didn't…" Emily couldn't finish the sentence. Pain erupted in her chest as she missed Aurora's non-stop chattering.

"Nothing will happen to her, Em! I promised Mrs King that I will always protect her like an elder sister protecting her younger one. Fuck! I failed her. I should not have left her alone that day. If only…" she sighed and looked down, hiding her tears from Emily.

Emily knew what Aurora meant for Susan. She was their dear friend and they would trade anything for their friendship but for Susan, Aurora was her family. The only family she ever had. Her real family was nothing but a bunch of scoundrels.

Susan's father married four times with four different women. His fourth wife who somehow managed to cling to him till now was nothing but a money-hungry bitch. Not to mention her father, who, to make his presence known in her life did nothing except for sending a monthly allowance, he didn't even bother to ask whether she was alive or dead.

Susan and Aurora were friends since kindergarten with their mothers being best friends as well and now the friendship passed on to them. When Susan's mother died, Susan was only ten, it was Aurora's mother, Savannah, who took care of her and Susan had promised her godmother on her deathbed that she will always protect Aurora like a sister. They were sisters from another mister! Or so they always say so.

"Susan, trust me, our Aurora will be back." She whispered softly, her own tears rolling out of her eyes.

"I won't be able to forgive myself if anything happens to her, Em! I won't."

Emily gave her a long comforting side hug. "She will come back, she has to come back safe and sound!"

Susan nodded, breaking the hug. Too much emotion was not her forte. They both sat silently, with their coffee sitting cold on the table. Suddenly, the room erupted with noise from Susan's phone bell.

She glanced at the call and sighed in frustration. Emily frowned, "don't tell me it's that douchebag again?" Emily asked, nodding at the phone in Susan's hand.

"Who else? I can't believe his nerves, we can't get rid of him even after blocking him everywhere."

"Pick up or he would not stop calling us."

"No, I don't want to hear this bastard's voice," saying that she blocked him on her phone as well.

Emily raised her brows, "I only pray that when Aurora comes back, she won't know what you did, Susan. You know how mad she is for Gabriel."

Susan raised her brows. "She is an idiot. The girl is naive, Em! She couldn't see how he was manipulating her since the start of their relationship. She used to be so confident about her body, passionate about her work. She had this childlike energy and now, after meeting him and being in a relationship with him she started to feel insecure about everything. I am telling you this man is a manipulative bastard and nothing else."

Emily nodded. "We can't do anything about it, Susan. You know her, she has fixed it into her mind and heart that she loves Gabe and he is the one for her."

Susan sighed. "That's the talk for another time. Right now, I only want to think about Aurora coming back."

Again their cabin erupted with the ringing of a cell phone but this time it was, Emily's not Susans. "An unknown number?" She muttered.

Susan jerked at her. "God damn it! Pick it up already, Em! It could be Aurora, she remembers your number only because it only had three digits into it."

Emily didn't think twice before accepting the call and she regretted doing so immediately.

"Emily, Hey, It's Gabe here," And Emily closed her eyes hearing his voice. Susan poled her hand, Emily glanced at her. "Gabe," she mouthed.

Susan hissed! "Oh hello, Gabe. How are you doing?" She asked casually or so she thought?

"I know you and Susan don't like me but trust me the feelings are mutual. So let's do ourselves a favour and cut this charade short and tell me where is My Aurora?" He demanded.

Emily's mouth hung open. She looked at Susan who gestured to her to put the phone on speaker. "Answer me, Emily or I promise I won't let you or that Susan in our life anymore. Eventually, Aurora and I are going to get married and trust me I won't let you both ruin our marriage by allowing both your presence in our home and life."

Susan couldn't control the burning rage in her anymore. She snatched the phone from Emily's hand and put it off the speaker, raised it to her ear and said: "you can't do anything you prick because I won't let you marry, Aurora. And for your information, Aurora is no longer interested in you, she has found a new man, a man who is better than you in every regard. He loves her and she has accepted it to me that she has fallen in love with him too. So she has already thrown you out of her life. That's why she has blocked you everywhere. In other words, asshole! She ditched you already!" And she ended the call after that.

Emily kept staring at her friend with a shocking expression on her face. "Do you have any idea what you have done? When she comes to know about it she will grill you alive, Susan!"

Susan waved her hand. "Nothing will happen, we are best friend since kindergarten and he is just a man who came to her life and that idiot think she loves him. I will break her illusion but first I need to find a man who will woo here hereafter she comes back."

Emily rolled her eyes. "Why can't he just die! That would solve all our problems."

"Wish he did!" Susan sighed and then they both chuckled at their joke and then their faces replaced the expression of sadness as if their laughing without Aurora was not less than a crime for them.

Meanwhile, Aurora again woke up by clinging to Liam's hot body. Liam asked her to keep quiet till he caught fish for their food as they were relying on seafood for the past three days.

"You know, you look hot in this almost hundred time washed shirt."

Liam closed his eyes with a deep miserable sigh. At least she has spoken only fifty sentences till now!

"Liam, till when we are going to live here, what if they don't find us soon?" Aurora asked in a small voice.

Liam glanced her way, he assessed her face. The girl has started to lose the color in her cheek. Maintaining Hygiene was not in her to-do list nowadays and now, even couldn't wait to leave this island. But he couldn't go anywhere because of the obvious circumstances! Hell, he couldn't manage to change them, at least not yet. Only if Alexandros found out!

He sighed again.

"Someone will find us, Dont worry and eat the fish."

Aurora nodded. "I wish you could meet Gabe. You are just like him, I mean you don't talk much just like him."

Did she just compare me to that son of a bitch! How dare she?

And Ever so Slowly, Liam knight raised his eyes to meet his future wife's. "You should not mention another man's name in front of me, Mrs Knight. You should not take the name of another man even when you are alone." He said in his dark, frightening voice which scared the mature man to pee their pants but of course, Aurora won't be Aurora if she would read between the lines of what Liam said.

Oh! She was not an idiot but if she fixed something in her mind she stood by it, differing every other thing which contradicted her opinion. So Aurora simply shook her head. "Oh god Liam, I felt like hitting my head against the wall. I told you not to call me Mrs Knight. But you have a thick skull."

She shook her head. "Susan will whip you, but let me tell you one thing, I won't tell anyone how much you teased me by calling me that…"

Liam neared her face. "Call you what?"

She shrugged her shoulders lightly. "...you know, that."

"What exactly?"

"...that you called me, Mrs Knight."

Liam's lip tugged upward. "That's what you will be."

Aurora pinched her lips in a thin line, they quickerd and then she burst out laughing. "You are so funny, Liam. I just imagined you being disciplined by Susan. She will whip you into a new one."

What the fuck is wrong with whr mind! Have I lost my touch?

Liam clenched his hands tight. " No one could do that Mrs Knight, and the person who needed to be disciplined is not anyone but you only. Oh and yes, don't make me repeat what I said and I can do anything to make you mine.

Aurora blinked as an idea popped up in her mind to trap him in his own words.

"You can do anything for me to marry you, right?" She asked with a mischievous glint in her eyes. Liam oy raised a brow, obviously wanting her to continue.

"I will definitely marry you if only you prove yourself worthy of me. I mean look at me, I am the Aurora Kings…"

That earned a chuckle from Liam. "Like a princess…" Liam commented.

Aurora tilted her head to one side and flashed him a smile. "I am a princess, Liam. My dad always treated me like one."

Liam's eyes travelled to her godly body. The lush curves and beautiful face. Fuck! The girl was much more than a fucking princess. She was the queen, his queen.

"So tell me, Liam knight, Are you up for the challenge?"

Liam smirked in response. "What do you want, princess?"

Aurora almost let out a bell-like laugh. She thought that she had trapped him, "I will tell you but let's make a bet, first."

"What bet?"

"If you won't be able to win this challenge you won't call me Mrs Knight again. Ever!" She said firmly.

"Fair enough and if I win, you will marry me, right?" He asked in all seriousness.

Aurora laughed silently in her mind, because there was no way he was going to win this bet. "Alright, done deal!"

"Hm! Beware wife, I take my words seriously, if you lose I won't tolerate your insolence anymore."

My insolence! That man still lives in the primitive age. But what more can I expect from a bullheaded man who thought we are friends now but still, he didn't know how to behave with friends. I just pray that Susan will teach him the basic manners to behave around friends.

But for now, she had to be lenient with him as she didn't want to hurt his feelings. "I accept it, but first you have to prove that you are worthy of marrying me."

Liam nodded. "Now, stop the chit chat and tell me what do you want, wife?"

"If you want me to accept your proposal and marry you then, I want to go back to the cruise in, let's say, two days. Liam." She smirked but her smirk vanished when Liam flashed her a grin of his own.

He tipped her chin with his thumb and forefinger, met her glittering eyes and told her his decision.

"Challenge accepted, wife!"