"I was pissed at you. There's a difference." They'd been through that. "I somehow thought you or Gabey or Raphael or somebody could have convinced your Father to be more lenient, at least on my boys if not on me. But I don't know, I sort of ... came around." She looked down at him. "I don't think you could have done fuck all, really. I'm glad, looking back on it, that you didn't try."