Even if she did, she wasn't going to make it easy on him. She'd been miserable for over a week over this, dammit.

"I was pissing them off and making it expensive," Kathy corrected. "That's not fear, that's concern over the bottom line." She shrugged like it didn't bother her than no one took her seriously without her first jumping through hoop after hoop. "I know you don't want to see me dead, Eliot. I don't want to die, either. But...but making me feel small isn't going to stop me from doing something I think is important. It just undermines everything else."