His Purchased Wife novel Chapter 48

Susan and Emily tried having breakfast but couldn't gulp it down their throats. They were praying for their friend's we'll being to whatever third power present in the world.

"I am scared for her, what if she didn't…" Emily couldn't finish the sentence. Pain erupted in her chest as she missed Aurora's non-stop chattering.

"Nothing will happen to her, Em! I promised Mrs King that I will always protect her like an elder sister protecting her younger one. Fuck! I failed her. I should not have left her alone that day. If only…" she sighed and looked down, hiding her tears from Emily.

Emily knew what Aurora meant for Susan. She was their dear friend and they would trade anything for their friendship but for Susan, Aurora was her family. The only family she ever had. Her real family was nothing but a bunch of scoundrels.

Susan's father married four times with four different women. His fourth wife who somehow managed to cling to him till now was nothing but a money-hungry bitch. Not to mention her father, who, to make his presence known in her life did nothing except for sending a monthly allowance, he didn't even bother to ask whether she was alive or dead.

Susan and Aurora were friends since kindergarten with their mothers being best friends as well and now the friendship passed on to them. When Susan's mother died, Susan was only ten, it was Aurora's mother, Savannah, who took care of her and Susan had promised her godmother on her deathbed that she will always protect Aurora like a sister. They were sisters from another mister! Or so they always say so.

"Susan, trust me, our Aurora will be back." She whispered softly, her own tears rolling out of her eyes.

"I won't be able to forgive myself if anything happens to her, Em! I won't."

Emily gave her a long comforting side hug. "She will come back, she has to come back safe and sound!"

Susan nodded, breaking the hug. Too much emotion was not her forte. They both sat silently, with their coffee sitting cold on the table. Suddenly, the room erupted with noise from Susan's phone bell.

She glanced at the call and sighed in frustration. Emily frowned, "don't tell me it's that douchebag again?" Emily asked, nodding at the phone in Susan's hand.

"Who else? I can't believe his nerves, we can't get rid of him even after blocking him everywhere."

"Pick up or he would not stop calling us."

"No, I don't want to hear this bastard's voice," saying that she blocked him on her phone as well.

Emily raised her brows, "I only pray that when Aurora comes back, she won't know what you did, Susan. You know how mad she is for Gabriel."

Susan raised her brows. "She is an idiot. The girl is naive, Em! She couldn't see how he was manipulating her since the start of their relationship. She used to be so confident about her body, passionate about her work. She had this childlike energy and now, after meeting him and being in a relationship with him she started to feel insecure about everything. I am telling you this man is a manipulative bastard and nothing else."

Emily nodded. "We can't do anything about it, Susan. You know her, she has fixed it into her mind and heart that she loves Gabe and he is the one for her."

Susan sighed. "That's the talk for another time. Right now, I only want to think about Aurora coming back."

Again their cabin erupted with the ringing of a cell phone but this time it was, Emily's not Susans. "An unknown number?" She muttered.

Susan jerked at her. "God damn it! Pick it up already, Em! It could be Aurora, she remembers your number only because it only had three digits into it."

Emily didn't think twice before accepting the call and she regretted doing so immediately.

"Emily, Hey, It's Gabe here," And Emily closed her eyes hearing his voice. Susan poled her hand, Emily glanced at her. "Gabe," she mouthed.

Susan hissed! "Oh hello, Gabe. How are you doing?" She asked casually or so she thought?

"I know you and Susan don't like me but trust me the feelings are mutual. So let's do ourselves a favour and cut this charade short and tell me where is My Aurora?" He demanded.

Emily's mouth hung open. She looked at Susan who gestured to her to put the phone on speaker. "Answer me, Emily or I promise I won't let you or that Susan in our life anymore. Eventually, Aurora and I are going to get married and trust me I won't let you both ruin our marriage by allowing both your presence in our home and life."

Susan couldn't control the burning rage in her anymore. She snatched the phone from Emily's hand and put it off the speaker, raised it to her ear and said: "you can't do anything you prick because I won't let you marry, Aurora. And for your information, Aurora is no longer interested in you, she has found a new man, a man who is better than you in every regard. He loves her and she has accepted it to me that she has fallen in love with him too. So she has already thrown you out of her life. That's why she has blocked you everywhere. In other words, asshole! She ditched you already!" And she ended the call after that.

Emily kept staring at her friend with a shocking expression on her face. "Do you have any idea what you have done? When she comes to know about it she will grill you alive, Susan!"

Susan waved her hand. "Nothing will happen, we are best friend since kindergarten and he is just a man who came to her life and that idiot think she loves him. I will break her illusion but first I need to find a man who will woo here hereafter she comes back."

Emily rolled her eyes. "Why can't he just die! That would solve all our problems."

"Wish he did!" Susan sighed and then they both chuckled at their joke and then their faces replaced the expression of sadness as if their laughing without Aurora was not less than a crime for them.

Meanwhile, Aurora again woke up by clinging to Liam's hot body. Liam asked her to keep quiet till he caught fish for their food as they were relying on seafood for the past three days.

"You know, you look hot in this almost hundred time washed shirt."

Liam closed his eyes with a deep miserable sigh. At least she has spoken only fifty sentences till now!

"Liam, till when we are going to live here, what if they don't find us soon?" Aurora asked in a small voice.

Liam glanced her way, he assessed her face. The girl has started to lose the color in her cheek. Maintaining Hygiene was not in her to-do list nowadays and now, even couldn't wait to leave this island. But he couldn't go anywhere because of the obvious circumstances! Hell, he couldn't manage to change them, at least not yet. Only if Alexandros found out!