Betty
I couldn't sleep. How could I sleep when there was a terrified, lonely Kitty out there because of me? I walked around my apartment while Michael sat on the couch, staring at me with pained eyes. Thomas and Rodriguez stationed by the windows to be my silent guardian against threats I shouldn’t have been able to see.
“You have to rest,” he added softly. "You're still healing from surgery. Your body needs time to recuperate and you’re not doing it.’
"I can't rest. Kitty's gone because of me. Because I became entangled with Duke, because I didn’t heed warnings that something wasn’t right, because like so many other assertive women out there, I believed that by handling everything myself. I choked out the words on the last two.”
"This isn't your fault, Betty."
But it was. It absolute
