Sorry I haven't updated in awhile but school has been busy and plus with all the holidays it has been soooo busy these past weeks. I'll try to update more frequently but I have mid-terms coming up so I'll be very busy studying and all the junk. Well, on with the story.
Chapter 13-Aurora's History (YAY! it's only going to be one part! Thank God!)
Aurora bowed her head as she began to tell her story. She was fourteen years old (only three months until her fifteenth birthday) when she first met Louis Dubois, and of course at her age she was innocent and naive. She believed herself to be madly in love with Louis right when they first met at a party. He had danced with her most of the night or tried to because proper women only danced with the same partner three dances and she wanted to be considered proper. She had invited Louis to meet her father after the party and right then and there he asked for her hand, and even though Mr. Adams thought it was far too early, since they only met that night, he accepted Louis' offer. They were engaged for those three months and right on her fifteenth birthday (which is December 25) they were married in St. Paul's Cathedral. It was a glorious marriage and most of the aristocrats in London were invited to the wedding.
At the reception Louis was drinking, and it made Aurora a little unnerved, and when she left to talk to some of her friends she saw Louis talking to another woman, whom was blushing. Aurora got angry and slapped him in the face saying "This is our wedding and you will humiliate us both by speaking to other women!" She was extremely angry and so was Louis but he said nothing and walked away. That night, their wedding night, Louis had beaten her and forced her to bed him. After he was done with her left her bleeding and curled up in the bed and went out to a bar "to get drunk". The next 3 years of her life were complete torture and pain both internally and externally.
She had grown to hate Louis and even when she found she was carrying his child she couldn't help but hate him even more. She was seventeen years old at the time when she found out she was pregnant, and she knew it was his child because he was the only one who made love to her even though it was painful. She was disgusted that it was his child but she carried it like a confident woman would, and like a woman who loved her husband. When Louis found out she was carrying a child he beat her saying that she was an "unfaithful little bitch", and when he left she was in so much stress that she had a miscarriage. When the doctor informed her that the miscarriage had damaged her womb and it was possible for her never to have a child again she cried and screamed loudly. She cursed her husband and had said to herself with much rage "Damn that bastard to hell! He killed my child! My child!" She vowed to get even with him and so she filed a divorce on him.
She had first though went to her father and told him everything, and that made her father extremely upset. He agreed to the divorce and had very much helped his daughter win her case in court. People said, after the divorce, that Aurora had dishonored her family by issuing that divorce. She didn't mind though, and was glad to be rid of Louis, but she had to go into hiding. You see when she issued that divorce and won, Louis had threatened to kill her. Her father, whom was afraid for his daughter's life, moved her to a house out in the country that was in the family for years. No one knew about it and she stayed there for several months until she heard Louis was out of England. When she had come back to London people were surprised and amazed that she can walk out in public with so much confidence and respect as if she was never married in her whole life, but she ignored them like she did after her divorce.
"That's my story Erik," she said and when she looked up at him she saw his eyes flash with rage which scared her slightly.
Hope you like it because that took me awhile to think of. Oh and a Happy be-later New Years, and which ever other holiday you celebrated in December (Christmas, Kwanza, etc.)