A U R O R A There was thick air of danger that followed me around eerily ever since I met Marco. It hollowed out my capability to think and act as a person of ordinary prudence. Nothing good would come out of this arrangement, and I knew it the moment I stepped inside this place. I knew it in the same way I had known every unfortunate incident I had faced so far. Marco sent me to a room which was supposed to be mine. The well-furnished sight of expensive furniture, luxury bed, and all the refined things was still not good enough to take away the heavy burden pounding my head. The vanity came at a cost I wasn't willing to pay. An unwanted debt I would have to carry around me for the longest time in the foreseeable future. For the past few years, I escaped from one terrible situation to

