“…known your family for years. I’ve wanted to be on better terms, I tried to patch things up with your uncle. He just didn’t wanna know me because Claire's mother chose me over him, you see. And he always had this grudge about that. He told me one night out of the blue in a dark alley when he turned up after a poker game I was in that he’d have her back and that if he couldn’t have her, he’d make sure I didn’t either. He was in love with her, had been since they were kids, but he was best friends and business partners with her older brother, someone even more connected than he was, so she was off limits. A few years after your mum died, your uncle tried to hook up with Claires mother but she broke up with him a few months later and when she met me she told me her ex was crazy possess

