"She said it was just a mistake, something she did when under the effect of alcohol." She had kind of asked Maria about the relationship with Rae.
Maria had hinted that it was nothing serious just good friendship between her and the young man.
However, Aerielle was able to sound out from her mother that there was an instance where they had gotten quite comfortable with each other.
...
However, Aerielle's memory where she had seen her mother enthusiastically gobbling up on Rae's thing in an open corridor was vivid in her memory. She could not forget that image inside her head.
'I mean there must be a reason. He has been in debt before and being a noble he had been a frequent visitor to the brothels too.
When all summed up, that makes him a really bad husband and father.'
She tried to evaluate the reason for all of this mess in her small family