Reasons for his hesitation?

Ricardo had a sarcastic smirk plastered on his face as he walked to Armando and Erin, he wasn't even scared of Armando pointing a gun at him as he stood before him holding his head high. Compared to Armando, he was a little on the Beta side while Armando as always towered over everyone with his alpha male aura. His cold sharp piercing eyes fixed on his enemy who thought he was intimidating him and Ricardo shifted his gaze to Erin whose blood was boiling from rage just seeing the man she hated claim her as his. When Ricardo went to prison, she asked for divorce papers and actually signed them before sending them to Ricardo. She vowed never to return to the monster who hurt her so much and left her traumatized