Hearing Joy Dalton admit it with her own mouth, Aurora Sterling gave her a chilling look, tears welling in her eyes. "Auntie, how could you do something like this? Wasn't my mother good enough to you? All this time, my mother let you have your way in everything. Whatever you liked, all you had to do was ask, and my mother would give it to you. She doted on Sharon from the time she was little, too, and never wronged her in any way. I believe my mother fulfilled her duty as an older sister, but how could you treat her like this? You were with my father behind my mother's back for so many years, and you even had his child. If my mother knew, wherever she is now, that the niece she adored for all those years was actually the illegitimate daughter of her beloved husband, she would be absolutely heartbroken!"
