I sit with my siblings in silence for a moment, then I say, “Matt, I’m sorry.”
“For what?” He scrunches his eyebrows together as he gets off the floor and sits in the chair Mom just vacated.
“For how hard I came down on you and Dad when Mom fell. It wasn’t your fault nor Dad’s. I know that. I was just scared.”
“It’s okay…” he says.
“No, it’s not okay. I was such an asshole. Neither one of you deserved that.”
“Yes you were, and no we didn’t, but we understood where you were coming from. You haven’t exactly had the easiest time with all of this.”
“None of us have. That doesn’t give me the license to treat you guys the way I did.” Matt and Lilly exchange a look, and it doesn’t escape my notice. “What?”
Matt puts his hands up in surrender. “Lil, you take this one. She’s bound to blow up
