So again I haven't seen the show and I'm working on basics here
But I like to think Deceit (which is literally in his name) was giving DC some bad intrusive thoughts before the work trip that everyone; the states who liked him, his family, the main five, Kentucky and Georgia, were secretly sick of him.
The work trip was a good way for DC to reset and get rid of those thoughts.
So maybe at one point Deceit alludes to DC not coming back because 'of a teeny tiny mixup where he accidentally made DC think everyone hated him'*
*DC was coming back, I think Deceit is just y'know being an ass
