Chapter 55

Asher pov

I walked into the big hall, but behold I saw something that shock me, i was Aurora 

As I watched her approach me with so much confidence, all I could do was just stand there like an ice-cold structure, not even a reply from me as I heard my name. What I could keep doing was to stand there as I wallow in my imagination.

In a matter of seconds, so many thoughts came to my head, and different types of flashbacks of us together. As I kept on lost in different thoughts, I felt a touch that brought me back to reality, a cold, soft, and gentle palm that I haven't felt in a very long time.

And behold, she stood in front of me with her good loving blonde hair, her cute-looking blue eyebows match with her eyebrows, and her gorgeous dress with her high heels, and with all that, I began to wonder what a transformation she has really made for herself, because this is not the Aurora I knew years ago, she has had so much confidence in her.

 she waved with constant repetition. 

"Like, is this really you, Aurora?" I asked, with not knowing much to say.

" She nooded, looking all confused and angry.

"I'm sorry, I'm just really surprised to see you, and you know it's been a long time since we have seen each other, I'm just in shock with the transformation," as I said to her without still not knowing what to say.

 she stood there still looking very confused.

"Oh, sorry for the strange approach, what brought you to this event?" As I asked her with a falsely smile.

"I'm here for a presentation, I'm one of the presenters here," as she wrote with a big smile. With that big smile, I have not seen for so many years now, how I have missed that smile.

Presentation? You? Here? Like, seriously, I don't understand. I am really very confused. You're here? Like, I'm not getting it. As I asked, looking all confused and not able to compose a good sentence to say or ask. 

As She looked at me with so much confusion and frustration.

"Don't you understand what I just said? I was invited to come present a speech at this event," she wrote.

"Wait! Like an invite here?" I asked, very much confused and in shock.

"You can't believe it, right? The rejected Aurora, the abandoned and forsaken girl, which you have long gone forgotten, can be here in this kind of event, standing in front of you, after all these years. you can't believe I can climb this high. You still keep underestimating me," she wrote with that sense of dignity, writing fast on her notepad.

"Aurora, please stop. We are in public. But how?" I said, covering the notepad.

"Aurora," I added, trying to hold her hand, but she kept pulling away from me.

Just as we were still talking, Sophia came. "What is going on here?" Sophia asked.

I look at my assistant ii a surprising look, how is it possible sophia was here

"Am sorry sir, I also informed her,as she warned me to tell her whatever your whereabouts", she said bowing her head.

"I can't believe my eyes. If this isn't the long-forgotten, useless, and trash can piece of shit and low-level girl, Kara! What brought you here? Bitch! Or have you lost your way to the toilet? Were you clean or what?" Sophia asked Aurora with so much anger, as if she should just stabbed her with a knife if she was holding one.

"Hey! Young lady, mind the way you talk to my boss," said someone with a dark suit who had been standing behind Aurora throughout the period we two had been talking. I could sense she's no longer the ordinary Aurora anymore; a lot of things have changed about her.

Aurora raised her hand to stop him from coming closer. 

"Oh, wonderful. The whore has finally gotten a rich man in her cage. Tell me, baby girl, how did you do it?" Sophia asked, laughing and clapping so loudly.

Aurora, which was not able to hold back her anger, slapped sophia.

From that action she took, I saw that this is not the weak Aurora I knew back then. I can sense bitterness and anger all over her, and I know my actions five years back released a demon from the innocent beholder.

"Aurora! What has gotten into you? What is all this?" I asked with a very loud voice while I held her hands to prevent any further violence.

Just when I was holding her hands, her personal bodyguard, removed my hands and left with her. As I watched her being taken away, I began to wonder with so many thoughts flowing through my head randomly.

While sophia, on the other side, was just standing there looking straight into my eyes.

"Look at the chaos you have done in public. Come, let's go to the room," I said, holding her and taking her away.

As we entered the room, I asked, "What was the madness you pulled there? Are you out of your mind? Don't you know this is a public event?"

"Thank goodness no much people were around to witness this rubbish. Sophia, I didn't expect this from you."

"Oh really? Now you're blaming me? That low-class whore mute bitch slapped me, and you're trying to side with her? I really don't understand you," sophia said, her body vibrating and covered in sweat,while also her heart racing fast.

"You know what? I want to be left alone. Go to the other room," I said to her, my anger boiling all over.

"Are you serious right now?" she asked, her voice trembling as she left the room.

I took countless steps walking around the room, with so many thoughts coming into my head and also recalling every drama that had just happened there. With so many doubts about it, most especially Aurora's behavior. 

Sophia's behavior is not a surprise to me; she has proven it a thousand times. But Aurora's behavior is strange. I didn't expect that from her. Five years have really made so much difference in her. With the actions she just pulled today, she is no more the Aurora I used to know. Definitely, a great difference has occurred.

As I kept on walking around the room and asking myself different questions with no answers about them, I can feel the sense of panic in me, something I have not felt for a very long time. I was looking confused and disorganized as I stood in front of the mirror, still pondering in my mind about Aurora.

"Oh dear, I didn't see this coming. It just hit me like a bomb explosion, and right now, I am confused about what to do," as I kept on talking to myself.

As I walked toward the fridge to drink a cup of water to help me cool off the intense heat in me, then suddenly a thought came into my head the thought of the beauty of Aurora. She didn't only change in character, but also changed in appearances. Yes, she was beautiful then; I wouldn't lie. But after this long space, she looks more gorgeous than ever before. The hidden beauty in her just came in all this period of time.

As I continued talking to myself, I thought, "If this is the Aurora I knew back then, she has really grown to so much maturity and beauty than I have ever expected." I flashed back to the moment when I held her hands to separate her from fighting with Sophia. I still feel her perfect soft skin, and also as I look straight into her cute-looking blue eyes calling to me, as I kept on wallowing in my imagination.

"If this was the Aurora I rejected a long time ago, I have really made the worst mistake of my life," as I sobered in my thoughts and came back to reality.

"What are you doing, asher? I need to have a shower and go out and take a walk. I think that will work to ease all these thoughts in my head."

As I was outside walking through the gardens with the good smell of roses and the cool air from the atmosphere buzzing all over, I walked down different paths and greeted different people who acknowledged my presence. Then, I suddenly saw Aurora..