Cole had always been an entitled brat. As the result of my father’s affair with his twenty-one-year-old secretary, he had always felt like he was on the outside. My mother had done everything in her power to make sure we all built relationships with him. His own mother had little interest in being a parent, just like our father, so he could often be found hanging around our mom’s house. And my mother, the saint that she was, had always treated him like one of her own.
