Chapter Seven – Aurora

My mind hadn’t stopped racing all morning. All I could think about was my Father and the strange ‘animal’ that he may have encountered. Worst of all I couldn’t stop myself from questioning Vincent’s disappearance. It just didn’t seem plausible that my Father wasn’t involved in some way. Perhaps he did kill him after all; otherwise what ‘animal-like creature’ could have taken him. The whole story sounded incredibly insane. The more I thought about it the more I convinced myself that Dragos was amusing himself at my expense. Perhaps he was just a bored and lonely old man; he had nothing better to do with his time. Yet still, that little voice inside my head kept whispering to me, what if he is telling the truth?

There was only one way to find out, I would have to investigate it myself. I decided to contact my friend Hyun; I hadn’t known him as long as Lucian but I knew him well enough to trust him. He never asked any questions and I knew that he had a lot of contacts. The sort of company he kept was not one to be questioned, so I never delved any deeper into his personal life other than asking him for the odd favour or two. Luckily for me he never asked for anything in return. Had he done so, all I had to offer him would have been money, and judging by his lifestyle, he had plenty of it.

He answered the phone almost straight away, I had a suspicious feeling that he was already waiting for a very important call. He sounded almost disappointed when I spoke.

“Hey Aurora…what can I do for you?”

“Well first of all, you don’t have to sound so pleased to hear from me,” I said feeling slightly annoyed, “I won’t keep you long; I just need a favour.”

There was a long pause before Hyun replied, “Ok, why don’t I come round in a bit, we can talk it over a few drinks.”

“I don’t want to inconvenience you.”

“You aren’t,” he paused for another second before continuing, “There’s something I need to talk to you about anyway.”

After ending the conversation, I lay back on my bed, stretching myself out till my fingertips touched the headboard. I was exhausted. Then it hit me, I had another family out there somewhere. A family I’d never met or known about until today, a family that most likely didn’t know that I even existed. I felt a sudden surge of anger toward my Father; he selfishly used all the people around him. While he may have suffered for a few moments, my Mother suffered for a life time and had his other family discovered his secret they would have too.

They will soon.