“Let me get Jerome, he can give you a sedative to help you calm down. I think you should sleep on it and make this decision in the morning,” Ben suggested.
“No! I'm not staying – I can't stay! I could do that to any one of you! Or maybe I'm capable of doing worse? Who knows?” Anguish was clear in every syllable I spoke. “It could be you next, or Rowena! Hell, I could even hurt Katie, without even meaning to! I can't take that risk. I won't take that risk.” I wrenched my jacket from the back of the chair and shrugged it on. “The best thing for your protection is for me to leave. Now.”
“I don't believe you would ever hurt us intentionally,” Rowena protested.
“No, maybe not. But apparently, I'm just as capable of doing it unintentionally. I can't take the risk of that happening,” I respond
