Chapter 6
Although Eddie had been born into both wealth and position in the n***o community; he’d accepted it as a matter of fact and not a matter of due. His confidence was intrinsic to his psyche; it was more than a birthright. Unlike his sisters, he never allowed the transition from being a have, to a have not, penetrate his armor. Eddie was a chameleon, able to cloak himself in his surroundings, becoming visible only when and if it suited him. This trait was even more evident after his father’s stroke and his family’s fall from financial and social grace. As a young man, he’d watched as his mother, Carrie climbed from the ashes left by his father’s destruction and her own indiscretion. After years, his father’s womanizing had finally caught up with him when he had a stroke
