Parents were still a red flag to Cutter, even though he wouldn't admit it. He had worked hard to let go of the resentment towards his own and even though he kept telling himself that his decision not to want children had not so much to do with his family history but with his own reasons. The older he got the more he realized that he had inherited the best of both of them - his father's inability to deal with or show emotions and his mother's tendency to withdraw from everything he wasn't comfortable with.
"You said piano and a piano it will be. I can't stand those fucking little things. First one to turn on those annoying sound effects will be shot an' you don't want that to happen, darlin'." Cutter hadn't wanted to use any terms of endearment because he just felt weird thinking about it. But from time to time he slipped without even noticing it.