Aurora’s POV
“Give that back to me,” I said.
My voice was shaking. All the cold pride in my chest melted into pure terror.
Sophie held Maya’s drawing between two long fingers. She looked down at the little figures of a boy and a girl, her eyes widening in realization.
“Maya and Leo...” Sophie whispered, her lips curling into a wicked grin. “You actually gave birth to them? You kept the dirty seed from the woods, and you had two of them?”
“Sophie, please,” I choked out.
The word tasted like acid on my tongue. In twenty years of living in the Brooks mansion, I had never begged anyone. Even the night Nathan told me to abort my child and locked me up, I held my head up without crying.
Now, I was breaking.
I couldn't leave Greyport. I had only eight dollars in my coat. My landlord had t
