Chapter 41

• “Let’s finish the story of when Cole took care of you and your siblings. The last thing you mentioned was him wanting to keep your sibling’s routine in your parents’ absence but had a difficult time psychologically with bathing five, three, and one year old pups. You said your parents had a hard time with getting past the pedophile rumors that were going around about him.”
• “Yes sir. Dad was less concerned than mom. He had more of an open mind towards him when he realized how rough he had it. While he was fighting with Alpha Redmen to allow Cole to have a real carpentry apprenticeship, which included living with us, he was also fighting with mom over the same thing. I remember there being a lot of late nights where they argued over it. How dad repeatedly reassured her that he would never have that kind of access to the younger kids. He pointed out consistently how he felt Cole was being abused and wanted to give him a break from such treatment. Mom still wasn’t completely on board when Alpha Redmen caved and allowed Cole to move in with the condition that he report for “special training” on the fifteenth of every month.”
• “But she obviously let him move in.”