"Then we're good," Aurora said with a smug look.

I had to laugh. "Just don't pull anything crazy like that again."

"Yeah, yeah, I got it."

"Don't 'yeah yeah' me."

"I'm not! I'm not! I always do what you say."

I cracked up. She was such a handful. Getting more serious as I dropped her off at her place, I said, "For real, Aurora, you can't go off like that again. Richard let it slide today, but what if he'd backed Susan ...