Chapter 8: Missed
(Aurora's POV)
The words had barely left my mouth when I heard it - a low, powerful engine rolling up the drive.
The black Rolls-Royce Phantom. Jasper.
I stood, brushed the ash from my palms, and kept my face blank. I had nothing left to feel about his arrival.
Rosalind heard it too. She went from sullen statue to sprinting child in about half a second, bolting across the garden toward the gate. As she passed me, she threw her shoulder into mine, hard, trying to knock me sideways.
I'd already seen it coming. I stepped aside, shifted my weight, and let her stumble past. She nearly went down on her own momentum. She shot me a furious look over her shoulder, then kept running.
A moment later I heard her voice go bright and breathless. "Daddy! Daddy, is Auntie S
