Chapter 49

• Chapter 49
• Aurora woke to a shrill ping on her phone. For a moment, she lay in the soft morning light filtering through her curtains, savoring the rare peace of dawn. Then she remembered. Today was the day. The scholarship decision would arrive.
• Her heart thudded as she sat up and scrambled for her laptop. She slid into her scrubs, fingers trembling as she typed in her school email at the top of her desk. The screen blinked, then loaded.