Chapter 679

It was because of her condition that the thugs were given an extra year on their sentence.

Megan clung tightly to Aurora’s waist, her voice choked with emotion. “Aurora, I’m so glad you were with me. I don’t know what I would’ve done without you."

“When those men came at me, I felt so helpless. I didn’t know what to do.”

Aurora held her in her arms, comforting her over and over. “It’s all right. I’m here. I’ll stay with you. No matter what anyone else thinks, I won’t leave you.”

Megan nodded. Every time she thought about that cat, her heart ached. She finally opened up to Aurora about what had been on her mind.

“Aurora, when I got to the alley, I stopped to feed a cat. But later, it... it tried to protect me from those monsters and…” She couldn’t finish the sentence, no matter how hard she tried. The words just wouldn’t come.

The way those monsters treated that sweet little cat–it was like something out of a horror film, playing on a loop in her mind. She didn’t even have the courage to picture how the cat died, or what really happened in that alley. To Megan, it felt like a scene from a disaster movie. In all her quiet, comfortable years growing up, nothing had ever come close to the nightmare of that night. To her, those men weren’t even human–they were monsters in disguise. Megan buried her face in her hands, her mind consumed by the image of that cat’s death. It was too much.

That little cat had been so small, just a chance encounter, and yet it had shown her such pure loyalty. And then there were people out there who didn’t even deserve to be called human. The thought sent her mind reeling, and she no longer even had the strength to lift her eyes and look at Aurora.

Aurora stood off to the side, watching the two of them clinging to each other, her heart filled with emotion. Originally, she had planned to stay at the station longer, hoping she might still uncover the person behind everything. But eventually, a sense of doubt crept in. Was that really why she’d been brought back–to sit there endlessly, waiting in vain? The incident had already happened. And even if she kept trying to find someone now, would it even make sense? So many years had passed–who could she possibly still track down? The world had moved on. People had changed.

So, Aurora left the police station and came back. She figured it was better than wasting time lurking at a place where no one might ever show up. It was more important to come back and see how Megan was doing. After all these years, she had nearly forgotten it all. But now, seeing the two of them hugging like that, Aurora felt a quiet warmth bloom in her chest.

Then little Aurora spoke up. “Megan, is this the cat you were talking about?”

Megan’s sobs came to an abrupt stop. She looked at the phone screen that little Aurora held out to her. The moment she saw the ginger cat properly buried, surrounded by food offerings, her tears came pouring out all over again. She snatched the phone and held the screen tightly against her chest, sobbing uncontrollably. “That’s the one… That’s the one…”

Chapter 680