(Later that night.)Aria sat on the edge of Liana’s small bed and waited, her hand moving in slow circles on the child’s back, she’d been fighting sleep for twenty minutes.Her eyes kept cracking open, checking each time, that Aria was still there, and each time Aria would press her lips together in a small smile and stay still.Hoping her eyes would fall shut again.The fourth time they didn’t reopen. Aria stayed for another minute, her hand still moving, before she carefully lifted it and rose from the bed. She crossed to the door without making a sound and pulled it shut behind her.Her eyes squeezed shut in a small exhale. Sister Maria would have been the one to do this, and Liana, despite her age had managed to notice something was off. That’s why tonight was different.Why she couldn’t sleep.She’d asked about Sister Maria but Aria wasn’t able to give her a tangible excuse.She was a child after all, would she understand that her long time nanny, that she trusted, was the one wh
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