LAUREN STRYKER: Did you feel bad using Willow because Kieran asked you to?
DASH: Before Willow—in every sense—I thought going along with Keiran’s plan was the lesser of two evils, not knowing I was ruining the best thing I never had. Did I feel bad about it? Of course. I’m a dick, but I’m not an evil dick, baby.
SAMMY BAKER: When did you realize you had real feelings for Willow?
DASH: If I were a smart man, I would have known she was mine the first time she gave me her ass to kiss… I don’t know when I realized I had feelings for Willow because falling for her came as natural as my heartbeat.
KRISI FULLBROOK: Why haven’t you pulled your head out of your ass yet and gone and dragged her back home? And ‘because I don’t know where she is’ is NOT a good enough reason!!!
DASH: Damn, baby. I fucked up, okay? I wasn’t yet a man. I let my pride and my ego decide my future and that’s never a good thing. I know that now. Believe me—no one will benefit more from how sorry I am than my lady.
BRIE BURGESS: Dash, the day you dressed up all Willow style crazy, what were your motives? What did you think when you saw her dressing down for you? And how did it make you feel?
DASH: Keiran wanted results and Willow was still too smart for her own good. I needed her to trust me, but more than that, I knew what that night would lead to. I felt it in my fucking gut. We were closer than I ever expected, and I knew I could have done many other things to make her fold, but I decided if I had to take from her what I had no business ever touching, she needed to know I accepted her for who she was because I did. I wanted Willow more than I wanted anything in my life, but I didn’t want her to regret it afterwards. I owed her that at least. Seeing her dressed normal only showed me that what I felt was real. I missed her crazy get-up, though I appreciated the gesture.
ROSEMARIE ADAMS: The summer you spent with Willow, you said it was real. Was that your true feelings? Or just part of Kieran’s game?
DASH: Even the best-laid plans never go accordingly. Willow changed the game, wrote her own rules, and fucked me up in the process. My feelings for Willow were very much real, and I have Keiran’s game to thank for it
FEENA DON: Was it just a stupid game for you from the start? Or maybe you had some strong feelings for Willow way before Kieran even asked you to fuck with her life?!
DASH: If I had ever held a fraction of the feelings I had for Willow when Keiran wanted to play his game, I would have told him to go fuck himself and meant it.
RACHEL CAMPBELL: Dash...so...you got with Willow because Keiran told you to and you’re going to work for your dad because he told you to. When are you gonna stop being everybody’s puppet and go after what you want?!?
DASH: I made the decision to give in to my father and I made the decision to follow Keiran. I’m no one’s puppet. A man takes responsibility for his decisions. This is me being accountable.
CHEYENNE DAVIS: Dash, did you like Willow from the start or after you slept with her?
DASH: I liked what I saw and planned to own all of it, but that mouth of hers had to go first or after… whichever came first.
BRIANNA BLACK: Why did everyone leave Willow on her own knowing she was going through shit with her parents? None of you deserve her!
DASH: Willow’s chip on her shoulder became a mountain when Lake left. None of us could get through or around it. We never left her alone. She shut us out. But I get it... We should have tried harder to help her heal.
RHEA EPPERSON: What was your initial reaction when you saw Willow for the first time?
DASH: I wondered how someone so bold and sexy and wild could have been so close but to have escaped my attention… and then I wondered if she owned a brush.
LILLY ROSALES: Why are you such a fucking douchenugget?
DASH: Sorry, Lilly. It’s in the gene pool.