Aurora had already lost the life her parents wanted for her by the time she walked into that roadside motel as a new bride. She had chosen Leo, her high school sweetheart, over wealth, approval, and the trust fund her family had once held over her future.
But just hours after their courthouse wedding, sitting in a cheap motel room with cold takeout on the nightstand, Leo looked at her like a man carrying something heavy.
“There’s something I should have told you before we got married,” he said.
For Aurora, the words landed like a warning. She had given up everything familiar to marry him. Now, on their wedding night, she wondered if there was one more cost she had not seen coming.