"If I can't be sorry, neither can you," Merritt admonishes, though there's no heat to it. "I came after this asshole on my own to keep the rest of you out of it. It wasn't supposed to go south. At least not for me."

Obviously. But the guy really had been more of an asshole than he was expecting, and he couldn't let the threat go unchallenged, and then the guy had cheated, using Dylan against him.