“My brothers… I was never there for them. I don’t know how to make that up to them. I don’t think there is a way. Xander has pain that I know nothing about, and I’m too stubborn to ask or allow him to dwell on such a thing. The Butcher in me wants to knock it from his skull and tell him to toughen up. I know that’s wrong, but I can’t change the way I am. "Max. He closed off a long time ago. I barely even know the man he has become. "Bronson. I left him with the weight of being what I should have been. I left him to look after them even though I promised him once, many years ago, that I would
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