His mother's every effort to draw herself closer to him was responded with a cold shoulder. He hardly bothered with her. What kind of relationships are those that had to be shoved in the face for people to realize what it means to them?
Those are rented happiness and faded with time. If it would have been a movie it would be 'THE END' with everything that becomes alright but it was reality. It was his reality and he had just made peace with it.
He was the most important chess piece in the game but still a chess piece...
He wasn't a priority and his guardians never failed to remind him of that vivid fact. He was cautious to draw closer to a woman who had a concentration span of a squirrel, it was just a matter of fact she would move on from him or maybe he will have another bastard sibling, this time from her.
She wasn't there when he needed her and now when she was there, he didn't need her.