Chapter 4He’s restless.
That was how Rhys Meyers’s mother described him to her friends. He’s restless, just like his father.
Rhys’s father, a carpenter by trade and an alcoholic by nature, left the family when he was ten and his sister was just shy of six, leaving him the man of the house. His mother, a hard-working Irish Catholic named Peggy, ran a laundry to support him and his sister. So Rhys grew up spending his afternoons after school helping out, cleaning out the lint traps, mopping floors, and keeping the ancient machines working.
But as much as he loved his family, he also dreamed of open roads, freedom, adventure. And though he was a bright boy who read everything he could get his hands on. Rhys also failed more than one class and cut school on more occasions than he could coun
