Look, I knew that Aurora didn’t really need my help. Obviously, she was going to be fine even if I didn’t intervene. She had a long, eventful life ahead of her, filled with many moments of retribution. But what if we could make the events of her birthday a little more... satisfying? Hopefully rewarding enough for Aurora to stop seeing me as a threat and to not hate me entirely. I was sparing her from her lowest moment, a day she described in the book as being the worst day of her life. With this plan, she would avoid all of that and make Liam into the joke instead.
Then bam – next thing you know, we’d be leaving Easthaven, laughing together about how pitiful Liam looked when she rejected him, and slowly growing closer during our journey to the Capital. A trip that would only take a few da
