"So I'm supposed to let them go, but give you a second chance?" snapped Todd. "I'm not sure you're in a position to tell me how to pick and choose which members of this family I want to forget about just now." He frowned. He wasn't angry with Liam, really, he was just angry and his brother made a pretty good target for some of those negative feelings.
"Sorry," he said, sucking in a breath to calm himself down, looking at the table instead of making eye contact. "I just... I'm not the kind of guy who just gives up. At least not until I've been really, really hurt. I guess I haven't hit that point with mom and dad yet."