" He knew Kerry well enough to know that had he turned right back around, apologized, asked her to forgive the knee-jerk reaction, she very likely would have, chalking it up to the stress of the moment. But he hadn’t done that. And now the deed had been done, and Kerry had made it clear she respected his choice with her silence. So, hard as ti was, maybe it was for the best, and he should respect her choice, too.
But she hadn’t been silent with Sadie. He knew the two were talking, though Sadie wasn’t more forthcoming than that about the nature or content of their e-mail and messaging conversations, other than to make it clear she thought all three men in her family were idiots.
And she likely had a point. "

― Donna Kauffman , Starfish Moon (Brides of Blueberry Cove, #3)