It dawned on Cherry a moment later how Scott knew her dad. "You met my dad in prison, didn't you? Seriously? A nice guy like you?"
"I wasn't always nice. Richie was the only one willing to give an ex-con a job after over a month of searching. I'll always owe him for that and I wanted to do the same thing for someone else," he said helplessly.
People didn't change unless they had a reason to. He knew that from personal experience.
If Cherry kept this up, she was going to land herself in jail sooner or later just like her dad. Disregarding his complicated feelings for her, he didn't want that to happen. If she was telling the truth, she'd had it rough.
He remembered what Delia said about not being qualified to work as a costume designer on Broadway. Cherry said she didn't even graduate from high school.
