Chapter 37

Aurora looked up and watched him clutching the window tightly, heaving.

"Why did you do that? I took you as my friend. I considered you as my friend."

Liam, who was trying to calm his anger, raged hearing her words. He sprinted towards her and grabbed her jaw. Aurora gasped, and jumped at the violence.

"Friends? I am not your bloody friend Mrs Knight. I am your husband. You are mine. Do you understand me? Mine!"

Aurora searched his eyes. All she could see in them was violence and anger. At this moment she hated being in his presence. She wanted to get away from him as soon as possible.

Aurora jerked his hand away. She might be scared of him but she tried to be brave in front of him.

"Do you understand me or not?" He yelled again but this time Aurora didn't flinch in fear. No, on the contrary, she simply looked in his eyes.

She faced the darkness head-on. It was not the first time she was seeing this, she had seen it before in him. But she thought everything changed between them. She genuinely accepted him as her friend but he was not worth it.

Liam Knight didn't deserve her friendship. So she simply asked him the question which would take her away from him and his insufferable presence.

"Please call someone and ask them to rescue us from here."

Liam shrienked his eyes and he searched her face. There was a little heaviness in her voice and he understood that she was trying to control her emotions.

"I made a bet with you darling, of course, we will leave this island soon. But till then, I will grant you some perks. After all, my would-be wife deserves to shower and sleep in a soft bed."

Aurora kept quiet. He didn't deserve her words. The man was despicable and she would not waste her words, thoughts or time on him anymore.

Not even a single second of her time.

"You may stand up and use the shower, Mrs Knight," he ordered, leaving her face with a jerk and standing up.

Aurora took a long shaking breath to keep the tears at bay. She stood up with her shaking legs. "Where is the bathroom?" She asked, her voice void of any emotions towards him.

He turned around, raised his brow. "Over there," he told her, pointing at the door behind him. She nodded and walked to the door. Opened it and closed it without even uttering a single word.

Something shifted in her composure; he could sense it. But he let it go, no he was not in the right mindset right now to question her and he didn't want to hurt Aurora.

No, it was not his plan. If only it had been as easy as hurting someone. He would have done that easily but the girl in front of her was going to be his wife. She was going to represent him in public whenever he wanted her to do so.

If only someone could see the grand plans he had for the future. They were far beyond anyone's imagination. She was his trump card.

"Fuck!" Liam raked his hands in his hair and sighed. He had no time to waste anymore so he simply picked his phone, went to the other room and contacted his father.

Ryan Knight who was yelling at his man for not being able to find a single trace about his son and Aurora glanced at his phone. He frowned seeing an unrecognised number on the display but his sixth sense told him that the call belonged to his twisted son.

He raised his eyes, ordered his men to get out of his office and accepted the call.

"Liam…"

Liam on the other end smirked. His old man always recognises him. "How are you doing dad?" Liam asked his father.

"You son of a bitch! Liam only chuckled hearing his father.

"Stop laughing, don't forget that I am still your boss! Where are you, Liam?" Ryan Knight was enraged when he heard his son chuckle over the other end. Here, he was trying to calm Ethan from starting a war with him and his son, the reason for all that drama was laughing over.

That was something Ryan Knight couldn't handle.

At that time, Liam sighed. "Is your friend able to see the reason now dad? Or won't he still agree to our alliance? If he needs more motivation I would gladly give it to him."

Ryan gritted his jaw in irritation. "You planned all this to scare him, Liam? Do you have any idea what he would do if he came to know about you being behind his daughter's disappearance instead of those Mexicans? He will declare an open war with us. Friendship be damned!"

Liam's eyes turned hard at that. "I value your friendship with him, that's why I only tried to scare him. The respect I feel for him stopped me from keeping his daughter with me and not giving a damn about what she feels. She is safe, I kept her alive and safe. And he won't doubt us, he will think about Mexicans only. Let him kill some of them, what does it matter to us!"

Ryan closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

"Come back soon. Please."

"I am coming back tomorrow, dad but I want you to meet Ethan and talk to him about anything."

Ryan was losing his patience with his son's riddles. "You want him to offer the alliance this time, son?"

A small smile came to his lips. "He declined when we offered. I think you should return the favour this time."

"You want me to decline?"

"No. You will accept his offer but make sure he knows once he accepts the alliance, my word will be the rule for his daughter," Liam told his father and ended the call.

Aurora was staring at herself in the mirror. She washed all the dirt over her body. The warm water soothed her skin and she once again felt like herself.

She was scared and angry for believing a man who was playing with her. Aurora was the kind of girl who, if accept a person in her life, would overlook his mistakes and bad things.

That's why there are not many people in her life, yes she was a sensation on social media but she chose what she wanted to do. She was her own owner, no one can state them for her.

She believes in loving unconditionally. She loves her father, her friends and Gabe. She thought Liam was her friend because he saved her life. He saved her life when they were not on good terms. She even wanted to hook him with her friend Susan but he was playing with Aurora.

"He has some serious mental illness and I better stay away from him. I need to be calm because everything will be over once I reach the cruise."

Aurora looked at the white bathrobe and stepped out wearing it. It was too large for her petite body and trails on the white marble floor while she walked out.

Her stomach grumbled once again demanding food. For the last four days, all she ate was those tasteless fishes while Liam was enjoying the good food. There was no need to ask the kitchen's direction. The aroma of coffee and bacon was enough to tell it.

She walked to the kitchen and her mouth widened open. It was filled with groceries. From fruits to vegetables. Nuts to cereals and meat to bread everything was available.

"This whole incident was planned by him, he lied about not knowing how we both ended up in that lifeboat. Bloody liar!" She muttered under her breath and made coffee for herself.

People might think that just because she was the daughter of billionaire Ethan King she was a brat and the servants do all her work but that's not the case.

Yes, she has everything one can wish for but after her mother's demise, Mrs Dolan always made sure she learned basic culinary skills.

Aurora's eyes watered remembering her mother and Mrs Dolan. She missed her father, missed his comforting fatherly smell. She knew her father would have moved heaven and earth to find her.

She also knew that if she told her father about Liam he would not leave him. He will punish him for hurting her and she wanted to tell him. Really want to see Liam being punished for how he treated her here.

But Still, she decided to hide it from her father for two reasons. One, she wanted to forget that a man like Liam ever existed in her life. She wanted to close the chapter once and for all and not to mention she still felt gratitude towards him for saving her life. She was angry and hurt but still, she couldn't stop herself from.feeling like that.

Second, she knew that Liam's dad was her father's friend. On many occasions, she heard Ethan talk about him and she didn't want to be the reason for ending their friendship.

She didn't care what everyone else thought but for her," friends are for life." That's what her mother taught her and she believed her whole life.

Friends! She chuckled, shaking her head. She was lucky to have friends who would rather die before hurting her. She was glad that unlike her father at least she had friends who genuinely loved her.

"I just wish I would never see your face again after this fiasco, Liam Knight or no matter what I will ask my dad to punish you for what you did. I just wish that's the end of your craziness because I won't let any gratitude or anything hold me back anymore."

Meanwhile, Ethan received the call from his friend Ryan. Thomas was sitting in front of him receiving every detail from his men in Vancouver who were searching for Aurora.

"I want the news to be good only, Ryan or I would paint your city red with blood," Ethan warned Ryan who somehow managed to retort back.

Liam was right the man became insatiable when his daughter was concerned.

"I found your daughter, Ethan. She is safe and sound, with my son on an island. I have sent a motorboat to rescue them both. My son protected your daughter Ethan," Ryan said the last part to point out what Liam was capable of doing.

Ethan's eyes shrieking, "and how did they end up on that island, Ryan?"

"I don't know yet, I am waiting for Liam to come back but as promised your daughter is safe in my territory and more importantly it was my son, whose offer you declined kept your daughter safe. Now that all things are said. Goodbye pal."

Ryan ended the call without hearing what Ethan was about to say. Yeah, friendship in the mafia does have a limit and now this power game which his son started with an obsession with Ethan's daughter.

Ethan king on the other hand threw his phone on the mahogany desk in anger. "Aurora is safe. She is with Liam on an island but Ryan took it as an insult when I denied his proposal."

Thomas raised a brow. "I was right Ethan. Liam is the right choice for our Aurora."

Ethan leaned back in his chair and linked his fingers together. "That restaurant owner, Gabe? How much time till you settle his matters, Thomas?"

" I sent some men to his restaurant but he gotta live a few more days. He was not available. Don't stress over him

He will be dealt with."

Thomas leaned forward and started into Ethan's eyes. "Agree to this alliance with Liam, Ethan. It's good for Aurora and business both. Ryan clearly hinted that he is still open about his proposal. Don't let this chance go."

Ethan closed his eyes, his daughter was his life. She was the sole reason he was living and her happiness was all he wanted. "I already told you. I will accept it but I want to meet Liam before that. He needed to answer some of my questions before I officially said yes, Thomas. I want to know-how did my daughter end up on an island with Liam?"

Ethan opened his eyes and started in his friend's eyes.

" I want to know if it was his plan because I understand Liam well enough to understand his twisted mind." Ethan nodded at Thomas, his eyes determined.

"And d what if you didn't like his answer, Ethan?"

Ethan didn't reply to the question with his words but with a smirk on his face.

Even Thomas couldn't understand the meaning behind that smirk…