How could Wyatt Perry not hate Mark Reed.
While he was struggling in self-blame, regret, and pain, Mark had taken Claudia Ross and even had a child with her.
If Mark hadn't engineered the explosion to take Claudia away, after he'd rescued her, he would have told her that he had fallen in love with her, not to divorce, to be together for a lifetime.
But Mark deceived everyone, taking Claudia away from his side.
Even without witnessing it, he could imagine just how desperate and helpless Claudia had been at that time.
She thought he didn't want her, heartbroken to follow Mark away.
She had hated him for so many years, yet she didn't know the person beside her was the instigator.
Suddenly pulled into Wyatt's arms, Claudia felt extremely frustrated.
No matter what the explosion was really about, she didn't want to be with Wyatt.
She was not a dog.
To be told to go and she would go, to be told to come back and she would come back, all at his command.