After the Sterling family patriarch woke up, he insisted on being discharged from the hospital.
Caden and the others couldn't talk him out of it, so they had no choice but to process his discharge and take him back to the Sterling residence.
This was Aria's first time staying overnight at the Sterling residence.
As the night deepened, she found she couldn't sleep, so she went downstairs to the backyard pond to watch the moon.
The moonlight, cool and bright, hung in the sky, holding an indescribable, tragic beauty.
In truth, when Aria learned that Mrs. Jennings was an imposter and not her biological mother, she hadn't felt any major emotional upheaval.
She had never craved familial affection, and even knowing Shelly Sterling was her biological mother, she harbored no particular fantasies.
But when she saw that vicious Array in the Jennings family's backyard, a sudden, inexplicable anger had surged within her.
