He and his sister had often fought about her attempts to make a family out of all of Matthew Walker’s children; she complaining about his lack of sympathy and love, and he countering with her lack of sense and family pride. The bouts never solved anything. She kept trying, he kept dodging. She remained unwilling to believe that Tom had no interest in the affairs of their father’s second family, or that he wanted no part of anything to do with the bastard who had sired them.