“Not only that, he had offers of a free ride at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, but from what Buzz said, the mother wanted him close by.”
“So I owe his mother…the bitch,” Bear answered as he tented his fingers in thought. “Without her, Drummond would have never seen his like. Are you done yet, Reed?”
“There are a few other things. The kid, according to Buzz, had more than his fair share of pride. He never accepted a handout.
Never took a customer up on an offer to meet him in the back. Even when Buzz knew the kid was hungry, because he watched him eat a mayonnaise sandwich before a scene! He did an intense scene with nothing but a mayo sandwich in his belly. They all knew he was hurting for dough.
“Buzz said every Leather Daddy on the Shore wanted a piece of him. They offered him large sums of money, yet he refused to sign any of the contracts offered, not even short-term exclusives.