The Life The Beginning
Gabriel was as much my son and his grandson as the girls were, and if he couldn't bring himself to see things that way, he could carry his ass next door to Garret's place.
I knew, of course, that my brother wasn't going to have that shit. He's the only one who'd stuck by us all those years, and for a while there, I thought Gabriel was going to follow him into the medical field.
The little shit was always showing my kid some shit in his homemade lab that I just knew was going to blow the whole fucking neighborhood to shit one day, but thank fuck it never did because he would've taken my house along with him.
He'd married his girl Amy, a no-nonsense type who keeps his ass in check, and they'd