"It matters to me that doesn't hate me for using her like that, Evan. I know it's a foreign concept to you," John explained. It was bad enough he had to give up Teagan's company. He didn't want her thinking ill of him and hating him for the rest of her life if he did something like that to her.
John shrugged. It didn't much matter now. That was his past and it was unrealized. No point in dwelling on it. "Whatever you got to tell yourself to sleep at night."