"I'm sorry," I whispered as tears welled in my eyes. "I'm so sorry."

Instantly, she reached out and brushed my tears away. "Sweetheart, you have nothing to apologize for."

"But I feel like I do. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have been separated from everybody you loved for so long. I mean, you had to get a job and clean the house and do all those things humans do."

"We still have to clean around here too," she murmured with a wink and a grin. "It wasn't that much of ...