The comparison would have stung if Don Juan thought he really meant it, but this was what Hudson always reached for in an argument. Not these exact words, but this sentiment: Don Juan was a child, a liability, not to be trusted. In need of constant supervision lest he do something damaging. When they'd reconnected last year Don Juan had said he didn't want to be the sort of person who couldn't be trusted to be alone, but he was starting to think this had less to do with him than it had to do with Hudson — that Dean couldn't trust him, and maybe there was nothing he could do about it at this point.

"Oh, I'm glad," he snapped. "Because I don't remember asking you to be my fucking dad."

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