"Auntie Beryl! Where's Precious?"
"She stayed back in New York, Germaine."
The little girl pouted. When she saw Beryl, she assumed her friend had come back to New Orleans too. They still had less than a year left over there. Besides, my dad planned for Ardent to manage the company there first, and Beryl was going to start her training.
"When is she coming back? I really miss her. Maybe she forgot about me." She looked heartbroken.
"We’ll probably be back by next year. Don't be sad. She thinks about you all the time. Plus, you can still talk to her every day. You and Mommy Ally can video call her whenever you want."
"Really?" I nodded with a smile. Was this really how you won over a kid? I usually ended up making my childhood friends' kids cry. I definitely couldn't make this one cry,
