He rejected his mate for over a year not knowing the hurt he caused her. Until after a new haircut and cloths did Veronica come out of her hidden shell to torment her shifter mate. Low and behold Hutch responses to the wild librarian, but the damage is to late for him. He know Ronnie was his but that didn't stop him from refusing her, pushing her away, hate her and then the worse for Ronnie, he slept with the women in town even knowing they were fated mated.
