Sandra laughed and shook her head. "Who said I was going to convince you? I will be the last person to tell you to apologize to him. On what ground? Listen, what you said is exactly what I expected from you. How can you be the one to apologize when he was the one who messed up? I won't even let you do that.”

Emily let out a slow breath. “Exactly. I won't try it."

“I was so angry when your dad was telling you to go to his house and apologize,” Sandra said. “Honestly, I wanted to shout at him. I was holding myself."

Emily frowned. “I don’t actually...