DELIA BURTON
looking down at her daughter, teddy felt a strange kind of shame settle dark and heavy on her shoulders. delia’s entire lifetime had elapsed in megan’s absence, and all these years teddy had managed to love and live on. she’d started a family; a chapter of her life removed of the friend she loved as a sister. how could she have been so thoughtless?
but the past was too distant to retrieve now, and what mattered was that megan was here; megan was home. teddy was finally about to do what she should have done years ago - introduce her best friend to her daughter.
“delia, we’re going to the hospital today,” teddy said softly. “I want you to meet your auntie megan.” At last.