Chapter 214 LOST MEMORIES
AURORA’S POINT OF VIEW.
I did not know how to react or breathe. My hold on her loosened, my body pulling away slightly, so I leaned back. Mom’s tears flowed freely, her eyes filled with sorrow. “I’m so sorry, Aurora.” She sobbed. “I wish there could have been a different way to do this. But you were so… broken. I tried my best; I told the doctors no, that I did not want you to lose a part of yourself. Then your nightmare started. You would wake up often in the dead of night; that’d be if I could ever get you to sleep.
You were on so much medication; a child of your age should never have to deal with that. When the nightmares started, I took you myself to Doctor Noah, and he connected me to Misha. She put you under hypnosis and gave me your activation word. I have made sure never to use that word anywhere near you. I would rather die than see you like that again, Aurora.
Especially….” She trailed off, a shudder escaping her.
“Especially what, mom?” I asked. I was not angry at her; nor was I hurt…..I was just….shocked. When Kai told me that, a part of me hoped it was a joke or a lie. Even though I know Kai to be everything but a liar, I prayed this one time that it would be different.
I didn’t know why at first. But I realize, it was because I was so scared, so worried I would unlock something terrifying. We were on our way home from the restaurant, the car moving slowly through the early morning traffic.
“Especially because Silas and I were afraid… we still are. Kai’s mother, the woman who did all this? She still hasn’t been found yet.”
“Wait…..Kai’s mother….Marloise….the Marloise Mercer, the entire world knows as the people’s princess. She was the kindest woman to ever exist… how could she have done that to him?” I gasped, my mind picturing her. She was a part of the British royal family, Theo’s aunt.
Everyone loved…hell, loves her. There are fan pages, theories about how and why she died. When she was rumored to have disappeared over a decade ago, the Mercer family claimed it was a simple hit and run that went awry.
“Yes, Aurora. That Marloise Mercer.” Mom said, wiping her eyes. “Silas was distraught. We grew up together, you know? Silas and Marloise…we all went to Ravenscroft High. Marloise was always twisted.
She joked about wanting to see the inside of living beings, and sometimes, I would stumble on her strangling or breaking a bird’s neck. I warned Silas, but he was in love. He swore she was nothing as I imagined.
They dated, he ignored her sociopathy, and later married her immediately after college. They were engaged to marry anyway, so while both families thought it was an arranged marriage, they believed it was a love union.
They tried hard for a baby for years. But for some reason, Marloise kept miscarrying. One time, I asked her about it, suggesting to take her to the hospital. You know what she told me?”
I shook my head, my breath paused… the air was still. And for some reason, I feared what she would say.
“She was the one killing her unborn babies….because she liked the pain of seeing them die in her body.”