Episode 7

💭Aurora narrating💭

After a few silent minutes, I could see that he was hesitant to talk to me.

Aurora: Eduardo, answer me or I'll leave right now and you'll never see me again.

He took a deep breath again, looking determined in what he was going to say, and walked towards me.

Eduardo: Aurora, I need you to listen to me carefully, and I want you to be mature enough to understand.

Aurora: Just say it already, I'm freaking out with you beating around the bush and not saying what you really want to say.

Eduardo: A few years ago, I made a contract with Bernardo's company, and if my company didn't reach the profit that was imposed, I would have to give my company to him.

Aurora: And what does that have to do with me? Don't come up with the probable marriage story!

I started to get irritated again because I knew that the outcome of this conversation wouldn't be good, and if it went the way I was thinking, everything I had thought or dreamed of could go down the drain.

Eduardo: Just listen to me, Aurora... I can't give my company away like that. I didn't think there were hidden things happening in the company, things you don't need to know about. But in the end, I only have two options: either I give up the company and lose everything...

Aurora: Or? Are you going to tell me I have to marry him, right? Just say it!

I stood up, furious. I knew all this shit was going to affect me...

Eduardo: For me to continue with the company, I need you to marry him.

Aurora: Hahaha, are you kidding me? I said, laughing and pacing back and forth. "Where are the cameras for this prank?"

Eduardo: I'm not joking, Aurora. I know it sounds absurd, but it won't be forever, just for a while until I can get the company back.

Aurora: And you think I'm going to accept this? Are you going crazy? You're asking me to give up my dreams to live what you want...

Eduardo: Please, Aurora, I can't let him marry Eduarda, she's too young...

Aurora: Oh, of course, the bastard can, right?... I can suffer even more, haven't I suffered enough?

I was so angry, so angry that I left the office and started crying. I just wanted to go home.

Eduardo: Aurora, wait, please, help me...

Everyone in the room was staring at me as I continued to leave, and Ingrid came running after me, calling my name, but I didn't stop and kept walking out of that house.

Ingrid: Friend, what's wrong? You're crying, what happened? What did he say to you? Wait for me, calm down!

Aurora: He simply wants me to marry him because of a contract, as if he's selling me like an object.

I stopped outside the house near the street and said it loudly for her to hear, seeing her shocked face.

Ingrid: What do you mean, Aurora?

Aurora: That's exactly what you heard. Either I do this, or he loses his company.

Eduarda: What? My father can't do that.

That spoiled brat appeared, too curious to know, and I didn't even pay attention to the angry look she gave me.

Eduardo: Girls, go inside. I'll talk to you later.

My younger sisters were on my father's side and entered when he ordered, Eduarda hesitated, looking at him for an explanation, but he just told her to go inside again, and she obeyed, going back into the house.

Eduardo: Aurora... please, don't leave, listen to me... I'll do whatever you want, I'll give you money, a house, a car, anything, but I beg you, please do this.

Aurora: I don't want anything from you. It disgusts me that you think I would want something in exchange for being sold the way you want... you have destroyed the idea I had of you as a kind father.

I cried a lot because I never imagined myself getting married. I had never even had a boyfriend. I just wanted to finish college and live my life, and what he wanted would destroy all of that, depriving me of living something I had dreamed of.

Eduardo: Aurora, please, if I lose everything, how do you think your sisters will be? We won't even have a place to live.

Aurora, I'm sorry, but you will have to make another contract because I will not marry that man I don't even know who could end up killing me afterwards....

Eduardo, please Aurora, everything is arranged, you will get married this weekend, and I guarantee you he will never kill you...

Aurora, I don't care, I want to leave NOW!

Eduardo, the driver will take you, but please Aurora, think carefully, help me, it's not just the company at stake, there are lives involved in this.

I got in the car, and I cried all the way, I asked the driver to drop off Ingrid first, and then I was dropped off at home, I wanted more time to try to hide the fact that I had been crying and my swollen eyes, even though I found it difficult to accomplish such a feat.