no.”
“Yes. I did.”
She swallowed. “I hated you for that. For a while.”
“I know.”
“And then I hated Mom more,” she said, and her voice caught, “because she was the one who told me you’d cave. She promised me you would. She said all we had to do was show up and you’d feel too guilty to turn us away.”
That was the first fully honest thing my sister had said continue reading …