“Jamie, sweetie, this is your Auntie Delilah,” Aubrey said as she and a somewhat anxious Delilah rejoined their group.
Zoe had warned him to watch out for mean aunties. When he came across one she said he didn’t have to call them auntie and he didn’t have to listen to them either. Because of that he was cautious about approaching the relatively large number of people gathered. However, anyone his parents introduced had to be nice so he willingly called them by name.
“Hi, Auntie Lilah,” Jamie greeted.
“Hi,” Delilah smiled at his shortening of her name. She supposed it was too many syllables for a four-year-old to manage. “You are quite handsome, aren’t you?”
“That’s because I look like daddy, right mommy?”
“That’s right,” Aubrey agreed slipping an arm around Nicolas. “But we don’t ne
