For once, Clara’s acting skills swerved. He’d always come to her often and especially on this day to say hello to her but never had she taken notice of his eyes like this.
His eye lids were reddened as well and he said “Nothing can take Ava’s place in your heart nor in mine anymore. But please give me a chance to relate to you like a son.
I can never be like Ava or your little son whose life was sacrificed for mine. But I want to be that son that you lost, even if it’s in my little way. Please give me a chance” Adrian Lester pleaded.
“There’s no chance for you at all. What I needed from you was just to spare my daughter back then but you refused. My husband pleaded with you but you and your mother claim not to remember any favours from us.
I don’t trust people who don’t remember the past. Ava might be dead to you but she’s forever alive in my heart. So there’s no place in that same heart to assign to you.
So you’ll take away all of the rubbish you brought and get away from here. I hate Adrian Lester and I detest anyone from the Lester family!” Clara seethed and shut the door on his face.
Adrian watched as the door shut on him and he sighed. Four years have passed but Ava’s mother is still in pain of what he’d done. There can never be forgiveness for him then.
If the living finds it difficult to forgive him, how can he expect anything from the dead. He’ll have to bear the guilt of Ava’s death in his heart forever.
As Clara shut the door, she was still and placed her hand on her chest. Is Adrian really broken about Ava’s death? Does he really regret it? What the heck?
He would have loved to tell Ava but the latter said everyone in New Jersey was dead to her except her momma. So what’s the use of talking about someone who is dead to her?
Adrian Lester left all the presents in the threshold of Mrs Clara’s house. When Clara saw him and his men drive off, she opened the door and saw everything left behind.
She took the flower and inhaled it. It smells nice and beautiful. This is definitely an expensive flower. She saw a little note kept in the middle of the flower and she took it. It contains two sentences only:
Her eyes welled up with tears when she read it. He said “Please forgive me for the death of Ava” and the second one touched her more “I’m in love with Ava when it was too late”
So, he now loves her huh? When she’s not with him anymore, he now loves her. He should have realised his feelings for her earlier than now and everything would have fallen into place. She sighed softly and took the flower in and left the note inside.
Adrian arrived home and went to his room. He shut himself in. He was tired of everything now. Few years have passed but no one seemed to forgive him except his dad.
His grandfather just relates with him superficially. Clara’s mom was not in any way better and even he himself hasn’t forgiven himself. He hadn’t been able to forgive himself for everything that happened to Ava and her dad.
How then did he expect Ava to forgive him? The pain plunging his heart was massive and he imagined his heart bleeding non stop.
While Adrian was mourning in New Jersey, Aurora was holding a party with her family in X-city. That day was the day she chose as her birthday.
The day Ava died and Aurora was born. It’s worth celebrating and she was dancing with her friend Mark Tony. He is the son of her dad’s best friend. A surgeon in general medicine.
There was a lot of eating and drinking. A lot of dignitaries were present for her birthday and Aurora was excited. What would her life have been, if her family didn’t come to find her?
Elsie Blake was dressed like a Cinderella princess. Her Mom’s birthday was always celebrated in grand style more than anyone else’s birthday. Her grandma was even happier than her mommy and she talked to the women in excitement.
Elsie Blake sat with her aunt Charlotte, Uncle Santiago’s wife. Aurora’s dress was designed by the best fashion designer in France. And she looked so gorgeous and elegant that many young men all wanted to have her as their woman.
Aurora danced with as many as were present and she went to fetch her daughter. The most precious thing she’s got in this life. Thank goodness that she was saved otherwise, her daughter might not be with her at the moment.
She always reminds her of her friend Luna Wesley. She’d gotten her out of jail through her dad’s connection, but she doesn’t know a thing about her whereabouts yet.
One of these days, she would invite her over to X-city. They need to meet again as friends and seal their friendship forever.
Elsie Blake danced and held hands with her mother. Her dress was a smaller one of Ava’s. They both looked beautiful and attractive.
Then Ray Grimard arrived with Jimmy Blake. He has been patronising himself as her boyfriend and Aurora’s family see nothing wrong about it.
His family were well respected in X-city as well. Like Simon Blake, his father, though dead, was a former president of the X-city and he had a good reputation in the army. He left a good record that has accompanied his name for these many years.
And Ray is in the army and has grown to the level of the Lieutenant general while Jimmy is still within the rank of the Major general.
He went to Aurora and circled his hands around her and kissed her temple as he started dancing with her. Everyone applauded them and said they are a perfect match. They should get married already.
Elsie ran off. She doesn’t like this uncle at all. He always appears to take her mommy away from her. He often stares at her like a predator. He is a bad guy.
“How are you, baby?” He asked, bringing Aurora’s body against himself. Making her body plastered against his. He doesn’t know what this woman wants, that she doesn’t want to accept his advances and start a relationship with him already.
Aurora felt suffocated by Ray Grimard and she tried to separate from him but he held her in place forcefully and Aurora whispered “Let go of me, Ray”
“How long will you keep running away from me?” He said and wore a smirk. Aurora glanced up at him, what does he mean by running away? Suffocating a woman is not the best way to woo her.
He bent over and whispered in her ears “I’ll eventually be the only man to fuck you in this city, and I look forward to it!” And smiled broadly.