Tyler’s voice hardened. “I’m trying to apologize.”

“No. You’re trying to feel better.”

“That isn’t fair.”

“Do you know what my father did when he found out you weren’t coming?” Silence. “He apologized to me,” Maddie said. “He thought it was his fault because he introduced us.

A sixty-three-year-old man who spent his retirement savings on this wedding stood in front of me and apologized for your cowardice.”

“I told Connor I’d repay him.”