Chapter 20

Aurora wore a look of helplessness. Janet held her hand and continued to persuade her, "Aurora, I promise he's a good man. Just meet him once. If you don't like him, I'll find a way to cancel the arrangement, alright?" Aurora never thought her first challenge back home would be dealing with an engagement her parents arranged when she was a kid. Back then, Janet and her best friend were both pregnant. They'd made a deal—if one had a boy and the other a girl, they'd set them up to marry someday. If both kids were the same gender, they'd raise them like family. When Janet and her friend realized they'd had a boy and a girl, they were thrilled, thinking they'd soon be family through their kids' marriage. But not long after, Aurora was kidnapped, and the whole arrangement faded into the past. Then, just a few days ago, after confirming Aurora was still single, Janet and her old friend somehow brought up the old promise at the same time. The guy wasn't married, either, so the two mother