“I know,” she took a breath. “Since then, everything has been so chaotic and out of control. The medications my doctor gave helped, but I also work with a counsellor, and I had been doing really well until last weekend.”
Mackenna pushed the food around her plate, “then the prosecutor called.”
Alessandro exhaled slowly, as he suddenly realized why the cat was protecting Mackenna. “You had a panic attack as a result?”
“I had a bad one, a really bad one,” she admitted quietly. “I’ve never had one so bad, not even when I was in the hospital in Milan after losing my grandparents and the baby. Derrick and Padma were here helping me move in otherwise poor Nuncio would have been in a mess.” She took a breath, “I knew the investigator had caused the accident, but I still thought it was a careles
