❝You can't go back and change the beginning,

but you can start where you are and change the ending.❞

∼Turner∼

I can't let her go this time. She can't do this to us. How could she end up with that bastard Stephan and not us? What was she thinking? Well, I'm sure, she thought it through but, how could she be so sure, he's the right one for her? Two years. She was with him for two years. Now that I think about it, we're not in contact with Stephen since the camp. Did they both ran away together? A dread feeling took over me.

Fiancé? How close were they to end of accepting each other's proposal? Did she sleep with him? Of ours she would have. Fuck! That bastard touched what's mine. I wish I could kill him but, that won't bring my girl back to me. I have to make her see that, I'm better than him. Or, we are better than him.

We are still in the security room at the club and the only thing I can do to suppress my anger is by biting by lips and clutching my hands into fists. It's the same with my brothers. I don't know, how long I can hold back my temper by seeing Stephan's hand all over Aurora. How could she let him do it in the first place? That to infront of us? Couldn't she feel our possessiveness in waves. Aurora, how far have we pushed you away?

"You sure Aaron came here, babe? Because, I can't find him anywhere." said Stephen, rubbing her back. If looks could kill, Stephen would be dead by now. "I'm sure. He said he was here, when we last spoke and then..." she looked our way. Her helpless face changed into rage. "...Then he said, he was going to meet these guys to talk about something important." she hissed.

"I'm damn sure, they have something to do with his disappearance." she said, glaring at us. "Aurora? You saw it yourself. He never entered the club and we never knew, he was coming." said Titus, getting impatient as the time pass. I'm sure, he's more pissed from their engagement news than the fact that she was accusing us for Aaron's kidnapping.

"Calm down everyone. Let's focus on the work at hand, instead of the blame game. We still have a place, we didn't check yet." said Aryan, switching to the cam in the parking lot. "Here. Have a look." he said, motioning Aurora to come forward. She did, without a second thought. We saw how she was unintentionally standing too close to Aryan, and he was taking in her scent, like his life depends on it.

Rihan chuckled, getting all of our attention. "What an irony. The girl we have been searching for past too years like madmen, to apologize, to clear thing out and sort the misunderstandings, comes back but, comes back with a boy toy to rub on our faces? How could you Aurora? How could you be so heartless? You didn't even give us a chance to explain our fucking situation and ran away, only to come back after two years, claiming we kidnapped your brother?" he said, with a hurt face.

"Do you have any idea, what kind of hell we went through? How these days passed without you in our lives? I didn't know, you were so dilutional and unreasonable." he said, throwing his drink glass to the wall, only to scattered it into pieces. "Rihan?" I warned, trying to keep him calm. "Don't stop me today, brother. She needs to know, why we did what we did. We were just trying to protect you from Anastasia. That outburst from Titus...It was all an act to keep you safe." he said, looking at Titus.

Titus just shaked his head, trying to forget the day. I know how hard it was on his part to push away the love of his life. "Aurora..It was dad's idea, OK? He asked me to act like, I don't care about you because, we wanted you to keep your distance from us until, Anastasia's real intention was clear. She could have harmed you so, we wanted everyone to believe that, we're no longer together. But, I admit. It was foolish of us to keep things from you. I wish I could take my words back." he said, still not meeting her eyes.

We all turned our head towards Aurora to see her reaction, after our confession. She didn't give away much. Her next word just left us speechless and hopeless. "Wow! Congratulations. You are a good actor. It worked. You were successful in pushing me away. But like you said, you can't take your words back. We can't turn the time back...It's too late guys. I have moved on. I guess it was for the best anyways. We were not meant to be together." she said, turning back to the screen.

We all stood there, not moving a muscle. It's over? Did she mean, it's over? No it can't be.

~Aurora~

"You're joking right?" asked Turner, with a expression closer to disbelieve and frustration. "You mean to say, we giving you space and waiting so long in hope that one day you would forgive us, was for nothing? Who do you take us for, Aurora!?" he yelled, coming closer. Stephen tried to stand in between us but, Aryan put a hand on his shoulder and pushed him away. God, I have never seen Turner this pissed. Did I make a mistake, rejecting them in the wrong time? No. I have every right to act this way. Let them taste their own medicine for once.

"Don't yell at her, Turner! You have no right to force her into something, she's not comfortable with." middled Stephen, to bring everyone's attention. "If you so much had wanted her in you lives, you wouldn't have hurt her like that. Keeping secrets, getting back with Ex, excepting a child from one of your one night stands and fucking different women to your bed every night, doesn't portrait an image of the best candidate, a woman would look forward to." he said, glaring at all of them.

Non of them could meet my eyes after Stephan's statement. "What? Cat got your tongue?" he asked chucking but, there was so much ferocity to his words. "If you guys are so desperate to be a part of her life, proof yourself. Proof that, you deserve her and take her away from me." I looked at him, like he's gone mad. "Stephan? I'm not getting back with them, at any cost. We are getting married, after we find Aaron. No more competition, no more match. Period. Im not a price to win, I'm a person damnit!"

With those words, I pushed past everyone else, out of the door. I can't take this nonsense anymore. I have to find Aaron. God knows where he is right now. I heard footsteps behind me but, I didn't stop or turn around to look who it was. I felt someone entering my personal bubble. Before I could react, I was on someone's shoulder, upside down. Really?

Now that I don't have an option but to look back, I saw all of them following us. Stephen with a scrowl on his face and the others smirking. Except Aryan, who was missing. That answers to, who's carrying me. "Aryan put me down this instant!" I yelled at him but yelped immediately with the sudden pain on my bum. "Did you just..." I looked at the other's amused faces. "Did he just...Spanked me?" Aryan laughed, followed by the others.

"Why, did you like it?" asked Turner, making me stunned. "Ofcourse I didn't and Aryan, you would put me down this instance, if you know what's best you." but like my words were falling on deaf ears, he continued walking down the stairs. "Aryan!!" his hold tightened on me. "I'm already hard as fuck, Aurora. Yell one more time and I'll fuck you against that wall." He said, making me gulp with his blunt confession.

"Where are you taking me?" No answer. Great. Just great. They're kidnapping me too. Hope they take me to Aaron. We reached the parking lot and Aryan finally put me down, making the blood flow towards my body. "What do you guys want from me?" I asked, trying hard to stand straight because, my head was spinning. "Taking you home. Then going to find Aaron, while you relax at home." said Duke, opening the car door for me to get in. Should I trust them?

"I'll go with Stephen." I said, attempting to walk back but, bumped into a wall or more like a wall. "Moov Titus." but, he only hold my arms and pushed towards the door, Duke was still holding for me. I sighed but got inside without further drama. I looked back and saw Turner said something to Stephen and he nodded his head. Then he got inside the same car I was in but, took the back seat and gave me an assuring smile. I wanted to go back and sit with him but, Titus's hand was holding me back. "Just sit" he said with a sturn voice.

Turner got inside, taking the back seat. That means, the triplets took another car. I still don't know, where are they taking me. My house or their. The entire ride I tried to look forward or outside my window to avoid their intense gaze. I can feel their eyes on me all the time. "Aurora? How long are you going to pretend that, we're not here?" I rolled my eyes at Titus's comment. "As long as I can." I answered, making him groan. "We're sorry ok? How long are you going to punish us? Was two years not enough for you?" he asked making me snap my head at him.

"Yeah, like you guys actually suffered for two years. I'm sure, all of you had gone back to your usual life as soon as you knew, I wasn't coming back. Isn't that why, you were surrounded with women all this time. Because you're too sorry for what you guys did to me? Sorry my ass." I gritted the last part. I could see from the corner of my eyes, Titus gripping the steering wheel, resulting his fist to go white. But, to my surprise he didn't speak another word. It was Turner who was in a mood to fight.

"Yes we were. When you left without a clue, we waited for six months. Six fucking months for you to come back, hopelessly. Six months for some kind of word from you but, no. You just didn't want us to be at peace. We were devastated. We knew, you won't forgive us easily but, we still tried to track you for a year. We knew, you were in contact with Aaron so, we explained our situation to him too so that, he would give up your location."

"But no. He said, if we love you enough, we would leave you alone until you come back on your own." he said, coming closer to my ear. "And that's what we did. We let you go. We waited, we struggled, we fought among ourselves, we left home, we drowned ourselves in work and we did everything humanly possible to get over you but, we couldn't forget you. But why would you be worried?" he said, leaning back in his seat.

"You were having the time of your life with the lover boy here." Stephan was trying to say something but I interrupted. "Yes, I was having the time of my life. And I don't regret even a sec of it. At least, there was someone who I could trust and who took care of my broken heart. Atleast, I didn't go fucking around with guys to satisfy my sextual needs and claiming to be in love with someone else at the same time. Sorry I tried but, I couldn't act like a slut and throw away my dignity like you gu..."

Crack!!

Suddenly, Turner punched a hole in the glass window beside him. Titus pulled the car to the side of the road and hit the break at once. He jumped out of the car and got to the back seat to check on his brother. All this time, I'm just too stunned to react. And Turner's electric blue eyes, with red veins surrounding it was making me go on a panic attack. He looked that pissed. "Damnit Turner! It's deep."

When I turned my eyes from Turner to Stephen, and then where he was pointing, my eyes went wide. That must have cut deep because, the blood was just oozing out of his hand. My eyes met his again but it seems like, he never took his eyes off me till now, the way he was starring at me. Stephen and Titus were running back an forth, tying his bleeding hand but, he wasn't cooperating. "Do you want to bleed out today?" asked Titus, putting pressure on his cut.

I sat there like stupid, not knowing what to do. After sometime, they wrapped his hand in a temporary bandaid. "It would need a stitch or two and a TT. I suggest, we stop by a clinic." said Stephen, after wiping his hands with a wet wipe. I couldn't see into his eyes anymore so, I turned forward and laid my head on the window, closing my eyes, hoping it would bring my heart beat to normal. The rest of the ride was silent.

On the way, they stopped in front of a clinic and I heard the brothers went inside to get the wound treated, leaving Stephen to stay behind with me. "Aurora? I know you're awake. Don't you think, it's going too far? You saw it with your own eyes, they are not going to give up on you so easily. How long do we have to act engaged?" he asked, making me open my eyes, filled with tears. "Untill they give up." I said, letting go off my tears, I have been holding for so long.

We waited for 15 more minutes for them to comeback then resumed the drive. As we crossed the circle and went straight ahead, instead of taking a turn towards their house or the other for mine, I sat up straight. "Where are we going?" I asked tiredly. Nobody answered my question. So I tried again. "Titus, I asked you something." he sighed. "You would know, when we're there." I folded my arms and kept looking at him. In return he smirked at me.

"So stubborn." he said, not mad but amused. "It's grandma Katherine's house. Nobody lives there anymore but, we use it for family vacation. You would be safe there until we find Aaron. Duke had informed your parents about the stay, so don't worry." he said, smiling at me. "But, why do I need a safe house? Isn't it Aaron, who's is danger?" I asked confused. His smile fell. Are they hiding something from me again?

They confirmed my doubts, when there was no reply from him nor the two people in the back. They looked everywhere but me. "Stop the car." he did not. "Titus, just stop the damn car!" he kept driving. "What are you guys hiding from me now? Titus either you tell me what is going on or stop the car please. I can't believe this. You guys always hide things from me. Urrr!" they looked conflicted but, then it went blank at once. So they can deal with my anger but, can't reveal the secret.

Fine. Let me see, how long they could deal with it. As soon as Titus pulled over the car in front of a big house, I jumped out of the car and called dad's number. Before my call could connect, the phone was snatched out of my hand and the call was disconnected. "What the hell!?" I looked at Stephen, who stuffed my phone in his pocket. "What are you doing Stephen? Why the hell did you take my phone?" they simply watched me helpless.

"What is going on? What are you guys not telling me?" when nobody answered my questions, I finally lost it. I went straight to Stephen and looked into his eyes. "Stephen, Please" he finally gave up. "We kind of know, where..your brother is." I couldn't believe, they lied to me all along. Even Stephen? I'll deal with him later. "Where?" I asked. They all exchange looks.

"He's was working for us as a hacker. And, I guess those people got a hint and...either they took him or he's hiding somewhere till he gets the information." my mouth was wide open. I can't believe, they used my brother for something so dangerous. "Who did you guys send him after?"
They sighed. "My business Rival, Lucas cage." said Titus, rubbing his head. Where did I hear that name?
"Lukas Cage? You mean the one who's has illegal businesses and involved in human trafficking?"

They all nodded their head. I just felt like, my heart stopped. I can't breath.

"Business rival?...Are you guys involved with mafia?" Oh no...