Chapter 76

Aurora stared at Alberto and she finally accepted the fact that the mother and father who had raised her for 22 years no longer had any love left for her. It was painful to accept because nothing, absolutely nothing had prepared her for this. Nothing had prepared her for losing her family at twenty-two. Nothing had prepared her for being an outcast at twenty-two. Even three years later, she was still struggling with the fear, the pain of being abandoned. But she had to stop making excuses for the Diaz family. She had to stop making excuses for Hannah and Alberto. The two of them didn’t give a shit about her anymore. And so she had to let go of them, completely. All Alberto cared about right now was his reputation and the family name. It didn’t matter to him about how Aurora felt right now. And so, it shouldn’t matter to her about how Alberto felt as well. She wasn’t the Aurora of three years ago who wanted her family so bad. They were not her family. She only had herself now and so, sh