It had been a week since the incident with Daniel, and Aurora was finally beginning to feel safe and free again.
The boy hadn’t come near her since that night. In fact, whenever he saw her in the school hallways, he made sure to put as much distance between them as possible.
They shared some classes together and sometimes she caught his eyes on her, filled and burning with both fear and anger, but Aurora didn’t care. As long as he stayed out of her way, she was fine. Completely fine.
His absence had given her something else though—someone new. Lorenzo.
In the past week, she’d seen more of him than she had expected. He always seemed to show up wherever she was—sometimes at school, sometimes around the neighborhood. She knew they stayed in the same estate though.
When she asked, he t
