“Sonny, come here.” Jane waved to Sonny.
Sonny walked up to Jane. Jane pulled him close, then picked him up and let him sit on her lap. She asked softly, “Did you quarrel with Titus?”
“No.”
Sonny denied the quarrel and said childishly, “Titus is right, though. Avah is his little sister, so it makes sense that she is his. Auntie, I like Avah very much. I really want a little sister. Would it be possible for you to give me Avah?”
Jane chuckled. “I can’t give this away.”
Avah was like a young ancestor in FC Manor, and thousands of people adored her.
If outsiders held him for a while, everyone in the Johnson family would be worried that their little ancestor would be taken away.
Sonny said, “Auntie, why can’t you give Avah as a gift? Okay, how about I buy it? I’m wealthy, and I will give all my money to you. Is it okay?”
Jane smiled and said, “I can’t sell Avah either. Avah is a person, not an item. She can’t be sold. Sonny, you also have a little brother. Don’t listen to Titus’s nonsense. He is equally as domineering as your Uncle Johnson.”
The two were not biological father and son, but their overbearing love for Avah was the same.
“Auntie, you’re lying. As long as I am older than Avah, she will always call me brother, but Titus is different.” Sonny said seriously, “Auntie, my mother said that I am four years old and not a three-year-old child. Please don’t coax me.”
Sonny was so smart.
Jane said, “Yes, Sonny, you’re a big boy now, not a three-year-old child. Auntie won’t coax you. However, I really can’t give away or sell your little sister, Avah. If you like her, go with your aunt when you have time. When you play at home, you can see Avah often.”
Sonny tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, “But I have to go to kindergarten every day, and I only have two days off. I also miss my mother and spend time with Uncle Lewis. I don’t have enough time.”
Jane was also serious. “Then what do you think we should do?”
Sonny didn’t know what to do. He felt that he still had to have a sister. But if his aunt didn’t give birth to a little sister, how could he get her?
Let his mother give birth?
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