The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 1729

Queenie's expression changed. "What? Aurora, are you insane? That's a death sentence!"

"If I don't, I might live a little longer, but I'll still die once those two brothers get tired of me," Aurora said. "Since I'm dead either way, I might as well take a gamble. My guess is that men like them, who live on the edge and have succeeded, believe in survival of the fittest. The strong rule the weak. The reason they treat all those women as playthings is because, deep down, they look down on them. If I don't change their perception of me, my fate will be the same as theirs."

At that moment, Queenie couldn't help but admire Aurora's courage. She knew Aurora was right.

"So... how did they react?" Queenie asked.

Aurora's eyes held a trace of cold mockery. "I hadn't been there long, so they still had some novelty interest in me and refused. But after I insisted, they finally agreed and gave me a gun for self-defense."

That novelty was something Aurora had earned using nearly all her skills. The younger brother suffered from chronic insomnia, and as a former perfumer, she had created a special calming incense for him. The older brother enjoyed making his own illicit substances, and as a former science prodigy, she offered slight improvements to his formulas.

By showing a sliver of her value, she had secured her life, for now. But Aurora knew it was all superficial. The Fordham Group brothers still saw her as a slightly more interesting toy. Even if they didn't kill her, they might trade her like cargo to another man.

She had to make the Fordham Group brothers feel reluctant to let her go.

Having grown up outside the circles of the elite, the tactics she had used on Leonard and Sellers would never work on them. She could no longer act high and mighty. To survive, she had to humble herself.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify