"Oh my God. I can't believe you're even saying that." Sam blinks back sudden tears, and she doesn't even know why she's crying, but she does know that she's sort of starting to hyperventilate and that is Not Good.

She stands, dizzy. "I think I should leave. I just hope you know you're going to make a horrible mistake if you leave him. And you'd be a coward. And that hurts me, to think of you in a cowardly fashion."