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Oh yeah, that would have been a level of hell Fingering a berry bush, she asked, "Have you ever gotten along?"

"I don’t re a time e ever did Even ere toddlers, I re to be the leader because he was born first But I didn’t want a leader, and I didn’t want to lead him His first as ‘mine’ Apparently, my first as ‘shush’ Even then he must have annoyed me"

"There was never any rivalry between ht for Yvonne’s attention or anything"

"Good People say that sibling rivalry is nore that builds character Maybe it is healthy when you’re a kid, but it sure never felt that way" He neatly sidestepped a patch of spongy moss "What fed the rivalry was that ere each other’speople seemed to do was tally our differences When people talked about us, it was often co us as individuals Who was born first? Who crawled first? Who walked first? Who spoke first?"

She nodded in understanding "Ah I can see how that would s worse"

"Plus, ere expected to share everything We didn’t always have our own stuff He didn’t like to share When people bought us gifts, they often got us the sa in an effort to be fair That didn’t help He’d always lose his stuff and swear that I’d taken it

"When we got older, we’d have our own things, but he hated that He believed whatever I had was better simply because I had it, so then he wanted it I was often told to give him stuff just to keep the peace But there was no real peace in that house"

Pissed on Zander’s behalf, she asked, "What did your parents do?"

"Nothing Mom would always excuse his behavior, so he was never held accountable for anything If you’re not taught soret it? Why would you ever feel the need to change? I’ it’s completely her fault that he is the way he is We each have our own mind But that’s the uilty for anything, I’d be surprised"

"Butwhy did she excuse his behavior?"

"He was Mo after he donated a kidney to ht it was nor coins in spotted hyenas at birth? At least twenty-five percent of their pups are killed by siblings It’s the Cain Coht? The unconscious, secret wish to kill your sibling"

She blinked "You think he’d like to see you dead?"

"I think he wouldn’t care if I was I don’t knoto inherit from our uncle--probably all of it, since he has that sense of entitlement--but he wasn’t happy whatsoever to hear he’d been left a dollar"

She couldn’t help that her mouth quirked "Wow Your uncle pissed him off even after his death"

"Rory wants half of what I inherited He thinks it’s his due He’ll toy with the pack until I give hiive it to him?"