Aurora: The Billionaire's Heaven On Earth

Aurora

The betrayal I woke up scared. My mother is sitting up in bed, her eyes closed, moaning softly in pain. I jump to my feet, and I know my eyes are wide. I’m worried, visibly lost, not knowing what to do.

“Mom, is everything okay?”

“I’m in a lot of pain, Aurora” I can see that she’s crying “it’s almost unbearable”.

“What do I do?” I look away, lost in the room. I look at the clock, and it’s almost six. "Wait just a minute, Mom, I’m going to call for help”.

I hurried down the hall, not knowing exactly where to look. Furthermore, I remember how well she was yesterday, smiling, happy. She didn’t even look sick, and now, she’s lying there crying in pain. I spot a nurse a few feet away and run towards her.

“My mother is in a lot of pain” I can hardly pronounce these words “please help her”.

“Calm down,” she’s kind, drops what she’s doing to talk to me “what’s your mother’s name and what room is she in?”

“Desiree, room 08,” I try to calm down, but I can’t.

The nurse goes there, and I follow her. It is inevitable not to feel this way. My heart pounds in my chest so hard, my breathing gets heavy. I wonder if it’s possible for gallstones to turn into a more serious condition. I watch as the nurse administers morphine to her and asks her to lie down and try to relax, promising that the pains will soon stop. My heart ached to see my mother like this.

“She’s going to be fine,” the nurse says, smiling at me, but that doesn’t reassure me.

I stayed for several minutes, sitting and motionless, watching my mother. The expression on her face gradually relaxed, and a few minutes later the moans ceased, turning into sighs of relief.

“Are you all right now?” I get up, approaching the bed.

“It was like taking it with the hand,” she smiles, and now I know she’s fine “go home and rest a little and when it’s time to change, you’ll come back”.

“I don’t want to leave you here alone,” I balk at the idea.

“I’m not alone, Aurora” she holds one of my hands. "Anything, I’ll call you”.

I gave some thought to the idea of ​​leaving her for a few hours, but the headache I’m feeling right now makes me accept the idea.

“Okay” I turn around, pick up my bag and look back at her. "Maybe I can convince my father to come see you”.

“Do it,” she agrees, “but avoid unnecessary discussions with him”.

“Don’t worry”.

I kiss her forehead and leave the hospital. The sun had barely risen; the morning was cold, and my stomach was groaning with hunger. I walk home, because I don’t think the distance between the two places is too far. When I arrived, it was after eight o’clock. I opened the gate and found the women’s shoes at the entrance to the house strange.

“These aren’t my mother’s shoes” I

Whisper, as I lean over, pick up one foot and realize that in addition to a terrible taste in shoes, their owner has a pretty big shape. I make a face of disgust at the same time that the little warning light goes on inside me.

There’s something wrong.

The door is unlocked, which is strange at first. My father left very early to work. He wouldn’t be home at that time. Then I think about the possibility of being an invader, a thief, a stranger in my house. I open the door cautiously and survey the room. Nothing out of place. Absolute silence. I entered slowly to make as little noise as possible, and I immediately remembered the female voice on the other end of the line as she spoke to my father. My heart races. I try to think that this is crazy in my head. But the shoes on the front door, the unlocked door, make me pretty sure maybe I’m not that crazy. I don’t realize the minutes pass, because I’m too focused on trying to unravel this mystery, when I hear voices and footsteps coming towards me. It was Claudio and a woman. They were hugging each other and smiling, but that same smile disappeared like smoke as soon as they both laid eyes on mine. The woman was in her nightgown and barefoot. I wasn’t that crazy.