"Don't stand there and guilt trip me," Nathan told her, shaking his head. "I've seen someone else close to me check out like this and I fucking told him what I thought too. He was a fucking loser prick who took off on me when things got too hard and he was too tired. Take it from someone that knows, you checking out and deciding that everyone here is too hard for you and not worth the effort? Not the best thing you'll ever do. They'll remember. So don't fucking guilt trip me, Kate. It won't work."

He paused and thinned his lips before he spoke again. "And I really can't believe you were happy when you're talking about running away from yourself and just leaving it all behind. Really, you were happy? Really."