“I need to tell you something important,” I said to Emma and Liam over breakfast at a fast-food restaurant the next morning. “We’re getting our house back today.”
“Really?” Emma’s eyes lit up. “With my room and everything else?”
“Everything,” I promised.
“Is Grandma Margaret going to get into trouble?”, Liam asks.
I hesitated, then I opted for honesty. “Yes, she’s going to be in trouble. What she did was wrong, and there are consequences to that.”
Liam nodded seriously. “Dad always said we had to take responsibility for our actions.”
My heart sank. “He did say that, didn’t he?”
