Aurora remained still, unmoved by Eleanor's words.
Frustrated, Eleanor decided to play her last card—her late mother.
She didn't know exactly what Aurora's mother had said before she passed, but she knew one thing for certain—every mother wants their child to live on, no matter what.
A flicker of emotion stirred in Aurora's dull eyes.
A thin veil of tears blurred her vision.
She could still hear her mother's voice, hoarse and weak, from that fateful day…
*"Aurora… my darling… I'm so sorry. I… have to leave first. But you are my pride, my greatest love… If it weren't for you and your little brother, I would have ended my life long ago when your father cheated on me… beat me… humiliated me. But I didn't. I held on for you two.
But God saw my suffering and decided to free me early from this lifetime…
But you—you must not follow my path. You have to live for me.
