“Because I raised Christopher myself,” he said.

“He was not my son by blood, but I took him into my heart and my home when he had no one.

I taught him everything I knew about the business.

I solved his problems when he made them, and I gave him money whenever he asked, and often when he did not.

I believed, all those years, that I was building a real family out of him.” He was quiet a moment.

“Perhaps the only lesson I ever truly taught him was that everything in this life has a price tag.