Aurora: The Billionaire's Heaven On Earth

Hurriedly, he walked towards me, pressing me against the wall. He was stronger than me, but I would fight him if I had to win that fight. He tried to take the phone away from me, and in response, I punched him in the face. I immediately regretted what I did and before fixing the mistake, I took another punch in return. When I realized I was fighting with my own father. The woman in the red dress tried to break up our fight and, in a single gesture, he pushed her against the wall. He didn’t respect my mother. Would he respect other women? The cell phone fell out of my pocket and Gonzalo picked it up.

“You’re going to pay dearly for what happened today, you arrogant brat”.

“I’m not afraid of you,” I said, as I wiped the blood running down my nose from my face".

“Great,” he said, looking me straight in the eye, “because from today onwards he will.”

He took my arm again, but I didn’t try to run away. Before dragging me down the hall, he turned to the woman in front of us and asked,

“Is what he said true?”

She took a while to answer. She seemed lost, looking for any lie to get away with it.

“It’s true,” he lowered his head, confessing in a whisper".

“I’ll settle accounts with you later.”

He looked at her one last time, and we walked back outside. He made me get into his car and drove in silence through the streets of Belo Horizonte. We stopped at an airport for small planes, and I still didn’t understand why Gonzalo had taken me there.

“Why did you bring me here?” He got out of the car without answering me. He opened the passenger door and took my arm again."

“You’re going to travel,” he said as we walked toward the private plane he had.

I tried to pull away when I realized what he wanted to do to me.

“It’s easier to get rid of problems, isn’t it Dad?” I smiled in despair, but I didn’t let my fear show. "Where are we going?”

“We’re not going” we stopped near the plane “you can go with a one-way ticket”.

 “Which is? My eyes watered”.

“Don’t you want to be smart?” he said. “Do you think you can live the rest of your life enjoying the sweat of my work and then stab me in the back? Now I’m going to teach you how to be a real man.”

“Want to teach me something you haven’t learned?”

His jaw locked, and I didn’t like what I saw in his eyes.

“You’re going to live in Brasília with your poor aunt” his anger was boiling over. "And I’m going to tell her to get really tough with you.”

“You can’t do that” my eyes were wide open, fear, now, transparency. “What are you going to say to my mother, to Natalia, when they ask for me?”

“The truth”. He waved his hand, calling the pilot.

“Will you tell them about your betrayal, too?”

As you said, she already knows.

“There was no empathy or remorse in him when he said that. I hated him for doing this to my mom.”He’s going to run out of money, no credit card, and he’s going to stay there until I decide".

I didn’t know what to say. In my mind, it should have been the other way around, but I fell into my own trap.

Gonzalo started pushing me into the plane. I could re-attack him and run away, but it wouldn’t work. I knew my father so well that in addition to him seeking me to the ends of the earth, he would keep his promise to leave me in the gutter.

“You dare not contact your mother or sister” already sitting in the armchair he put his belt on me “you will stand there eating the bread that the devil kneaded to learn never to confront me again”.

“It’s not going to stay that way, Dad.”

But he didn’t answer. He got off the plane, closing the door and leaving me alone with my fears, my hatred and my uncertainties. Gonzalo was very powerful, and even if I were his son, I wouldn’t have the strength to fight it.

I tried to find a way out of the mess I’d just gotten myself into, but it was too late. The plane took off towards Brasília. And I was going without clothes, without hope and alone.