“Laurence, I’m your uncle. I even carried you in my arms when you were but a baby.”

Tony asked anxiously, “We haven’t seen each other in thirty years, and I have lots and lots I want to talk to you about. Are you not willing to even have a meal together?”

In terms of seniority, he was Laurence’s second cousin once removed.

Tony and the previous family head were second cousins, and his grandfather and Laurence’s great-grandfather were half-siblings with different mothers. It was just that Laur