Eventually, Aria found her mother's journal in her knapsack, not fully knowing that her father placed it in there for her to read through and to still be a part of her mother's life of sorts.
She began reading it later on that night, when she was safe within her quarters. She read through various entries till she saw that there was one that was looking newer than the others were and she read it.
"I knew that Ishi would come back home when he had finally gotten tired of being that bastard's bodyguard. But he also knew that I was bearing Grayson's child before I even told him anything."
She nodded and kept reading on getting further and further into her mother's story. "I never saw my father killed, but the guys who did it, protected me as a child and the doctor told to run and get the police which I that, I joined the core and become Echo Leader and used a leash till Gray and Ishi found me, he was using a damned leash as well. Eventually, we began working together till we found the pods and got off the damned exploding planet while Ishi stayed with Sarrano."
"But the love that I began feeling for Grayson, despite the hell that we just went through to get out of there alive, meant that we were destined to have a family together. But, I know that any reminders of Final Echo were given orders to hunt me down as a traitor and that's what they did, but I have had just 4 years with my husband and beautiful daughter, Aria."
Aria was stunned, but knew that she must keep using her mother's maiden name of Novak for the duration of the mission till she knows it can go back to her own
maiden name of Hunt. But till then, she must use her mother's maiden name for the time being.
