Aurora:
“No,” I said, making the elders frown in confusion. But there was no way in hell that I was going to allow them to think that they could put such a condition on me. I wasn’t going to let them believe that they could put my daughter in such danger, nor was I going to allow them to dictate the fact that we were going to take away what is rightfully hers.
“Excuse me?” Alice asked, and I nodded.
“I said, no.” I said, choosing to repeat my response.
“I heard you the first time…”
“Then you shouldn’t have asked,” I said, making the woman frown. “You are asking me to put my daughter’s life on a line or what is rightfully hers. While I know that I can have a son and it would be his birthright in her position, it is going to be because we want it to be, not because YOU, a person who dee
