" Bryce remembered that Dakota’s birth parents had given him up, or had been so awful that the state had to take him away. He’d never asked for the details. How could someone do that? How could you hurt your own kid? The thought was incomprehensible, and Bryce was grateful. He never wanted to be someone who could understand that. "

― A.E. Wasp , City Boy (Hot Off the Ice, #1)