“I can’t believe you would even ask me that, Dad. Everything isn’t about you. Do you think it doesn’t kill me to hurt Maddy? That I don’t hate myself for it? That I don’t berate myself for it every hour of every day? Because I can promise you, I do. I don’t know how I’ll ever get past hurting her like this, but…don’t I deserve to be happy? To be loved? There was no future for Ryder and Maddy, but there is for us. He makes me feel…” Hutch rubbed a hand over his heart. “Right…settled in here. You want me to walk away from that?”
