Chapter 199 SACRFICIAL LAMB
AURORA’S POINT OF VIEW.
Densie stopped at the microphone, her vicious smirk frozen in place. “Friends, family… and scavengers, I am here to present an announcement to each of you.” Her voice boomed in the microphone, the sound of sick joy unmistakable in it. I gripped Kai tighter, my heart lurching in my throat.
Denise always looked this way whenever she was about to hurt me. "We were told tonight was about a powerful merger, a deal designed to shake the world, both business and entertainment, because two powerful households are to come together and become one.
A union of bloodlines, and not just the individuals. But how can you, the Vailahalla, merge with a bloodline that has been polluted by tragedy and... filth?"
I felt the air leave the room, and knock out. Beside me, I felt Kai’s entire body turn into a pillar of ice. His hand on my waist turned to a vice. We stared at each other for a moment, his lips were pulled in a thin line of irritation, and clear anger.
The word, filth, hung in the air, and for a second, I swear, I could smell it. Denise held onto a small remote for dear life, her eyes filled with hate. “This girl, Aurora. The one on the cover of every reputable tabloid…. She is no princess. She is no heir. She is the daughter of Everleigh Cruz, the mistress who tried to steal my husband from me years ago, with that girl as her pregnancy!”Just then, she clicked the remote, revealing a blank screen behind her before it cleared to the worst sight of my life.
It was my mother, from before Kai helped transfer her. It was a photo of her in the hospital, kissing a man. It was clearly photoshopped. I knew it, because I spent all day with my mother, barely even heading to school unless i absolotely had to.
But it wouldn't matter...not to them anyway.
"Scandalous!" I heard them hiss at the same time, the clan's women clutching their pearls for dear life. "I cannot believe a woman would...this is sick!"
"Exactly, ladies and gentlemen." Densie nodded. "Would you want to merge with the daughter of someone like this? Who's to say she isn't exactly like her whore of a mother? Stealing someone's husband, and then her daughter steals someone's fiancé...the cycle continues itself.
Birds of a feather!"
"This is why I believe in raising our daughters properly." One woman opined. "Girls should stay away from that brat...before she corrupts our children."
"We will not join them, Armando." Irene, one of the most prominent members of the Orsini clan, announced, her glare sharp. Lai pulled me behind him as if to protect and shield me from her.
"Look at him, he shields her!" she shrieked. "Who is to say she hadnt beweitched him?!"
She pointed to me, and at once, the room plunged into loud whispers. “You, the Orsini Clan, you must have forgotten the stain on your name, on your identity, the very one brought by her mother, a missing figure in her daughter’s life because she has been abandoned.” Densie cackled for a second before feigning despair.
“My daughter…my poor daughter and I were deceived by this brat. She stole Kai from my dear Morgan by sleeping with him while they were engaged. And now, he claims he is in love with her.
I do not know what to do….except accept my fate. However, I cannot allow you, the prestigious Orsini clan, to be deceived, or swayed by accepting this bastard again….not after the shame Everleigh has brought upon you all.”