(Aurora's POV)
"Aurora." She stretched my name out like she was testing how it sounded. "I had to borrow someone's phone. I wasn't sure you'd pick up if you saw mine."
"What do you want, Martha?"
A brief pause. Then the performance began - how she was doing, how the weather had been, how she'd heard I was doing well for myself. I let her talk. I knew what was coming.
"I heard you married someone important," she finally said. "Someone with real connections. That's wonderful, sweetheart. Really. And I was thinking - once Leo finishes school, if there were any opportunities at your husband's company-"
"No."
"-even something entry-level, just to get him started-"
"Martha. No."
"He's your brother." Her voice sharpened. "You'd really turn your back on your own family?"
"I told Leo I'd c
