Josephine was looking at her daughter whilst still holding onto her hands as they sat comfortably on the couch facing each other on their sides, with their backs leaning against the warm couch since the fire in the hearth was keeping the room nice and warm.
"How was your journey Aunt Josephine"
"It was absolutely perfect, but enough about me tell me how you have been since I have been away"
" Aunt Josephine you took so long, It felt like you were not going to come back" Aurora was looking at the fire burning deeply in the hearth whilst talking to her aunt.
"I know dear you know very well what the world is like out there people are like crazy animals waiting to pounce on their next opportunity, it's like you have to fight to survive because people are most likely to bite or try and harm you or take your opportunity away. so I have to work hard , I have to every single day to prevent that dear and there will never come a time where I leave my daughter." Josephine said with a stern voice with her eyes slightly watered Aurora returned her gaze to Josephine and they both looked at each other.
"I apologise I know what you mean and I have seen it since I was a kid, how hard you have been working I wish the people in this world were not like this aunt." Josephine smiled at Auroras innocence and she put her hand on one side of Auroras face which she automatically leaned into.
"Aurora are you truly ok?" Aurora felt a pang echo in her stone cold muscle since she understood exactly what way her aunt was asking her this question In but she was not going to give her aunt any doubts.
"I am more than fine Aunt, and you know that you have raised me more than a child could ever imagine I couldn't ask for more, but sometimes I can't help but feel like I have been a burden, like I destroyed the life you could've had You didn't even marry or even have a child of your own and it hurts, it hurts knowing that I am the reason for that"
Josephine was shocked to hear Aurora talk like that. She was not one to speak that much let alone confess what she felt within her. Aurora was a little expressive when it came her aunt only but this was something new to Josephine. It was like Auroras soul spoke.
"You never was, have or will be a burden how could you think like that Aurora? I never took you in because I pitied you or for the sake that you were my sisters daughter. We choose what we want in our life, we choose how we are today no one forced us to be something we are not and we choose the very path we walk on and you know very well from the start that getting married and starting a family just never crossed with me or my career. I never had a heart in that maybe that's why it naturally never happened. I chose the life I wanted or shall I say I was naturally guided on the path of fate and that led me to you. You are my daughter Aurora, you are my child so don't ever think like that again.