"That sucks." She finished her second beer and stared down at the bottle.
"My dad...his name's Gabriel, but he's no fucking angel. And when I met him we had more in common than I'm comfortable with. But he was married, and had another kid, and I thought maybe there was some hope for me being able to settle down. So I invited him and his wife to the wedding. But...I caught him with another woman at the hotel bar on the night I was supposed to get married. He..." She shook her head. "He didn't even know the chick's name until I asked him who she was and he asked her. He said he wasn't proud of it, but it's who he is. And that I know how that is." She tapped the empty bottle and sighed. "And that hurt. But I realized...if I married Carmen, we'd...we'd just keep hurting each other emotionally, and I didn't want that. For either of us..."