Joshua nodded, gave Rosalyn a courteous smile, then circled past them and headed straight toward the kids.
"Daddy!" Nellie spread her little arms wide open when she saw him coming and lunged straight into his embrace. "I missed you so much!"
Joshua curled his lips into a smile as he knelt to pick her up. "Daddy misses all of you too."
Nellie could not help pouting when she heard this. "What do you mean, you miss all of us, and not just me?"
She reached out to point at Shelly's stroller with her pudgy little finger. "Are you saying that you don't love me anymore ever since Shelly came along?"
Joshua could not help bursting into a chuckle when he saw the jealousy on Nellie's face. "I meant all four of you, sweetheart."
He pressed a kiss onto her cheek and added, "All four of you, and also your Mommy, are my babies. I love all of you equally, and that never changed even after Shelly came along. And this means that I won't stop loving Mommy or your brothers because of you, do you understand?"
Nellie pursed her lips and cocked her head, trying to understand this, but before she could come up with a response, Neil trotted over with his little suitcase and patted her shoulder. "Stop messing with Daddy. He'll really think you're jealous of little Shelly."
Nellie shot him a murderous glare then turned to grin at her father as she snuggled closer to him. "Daddy passed the test! I was wondering what I'd do if you told me you only loved me, instead of Shelly, Daddy, but you love all of us equally after all! I'm happy about that!"
Joshua rubbed his brows in exasperation at this. He should have known that his little princess would not be the jealous type, but because he had not seen them in so long, he was truly concerned that they would have changed.
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