Flora was gladdened, leaving the guest room and shut the door quietly in order not to alert the sleepyhead Ariel. After she was done crying her eyes and heart out, she fell asleep on Flora's lap.
Flora stayed a few more minutes with her, making sure she had given into sleep deeply before leaving the room entirely, to prevent waking Ariel up mistakenly, which is likely to make her start crying again from where she had stopped from earlier.
Liam was sitting on a chair beside the study desk and was checking out some paperwork when a sudden knock on the door disrupted him. He sighed, having a hint the person knocking on the door would probably turn out to be his mom.
He got his ass off the chair to go check out who was knocking and wasn't surprised at all to see his mom. She normally checks up on him at night, not all night before he goes to sleep, but since the thief arrived here, she's been checking up on him more frequently than she normally does.