He nodded and began. “I already told you, Secret, that my parents were almost never around and that they left me in the care of the house staff. Well, honestly, that really wasn’t so horrible. I mean, it was the only life I ever knew. Lance, my brother, and I were only a year apart and, even though I was older, we were about the same size and liked pretty much the same things growing up. When school was in and my parents weren’t home, the house staff did all the same things any parent would do, raising both of us to be fairly normal boys. And that’s pretty much how it went until we got too old for looking after, when Lance and I took divergent paths.”
Sparkle stopped to catch his breath, finished his first glass of wine, took a couple of bites of his sandwich, poured us both some more, an
