Kate slept till almost noon the next day, which was rare for her. She could not sit on the chair in her study at all in the afternoon, so she had to take the same position as the cat, lying on her stomach on the carpet. The skin she could see was covered with bite marks, and the place where she could not see had even more.

She cursed him for almost a full hour with all the words available in her vocabulary: morbid, psycho, beast, bastard… and then she opened the book on the floor and ...