"If you wouldn't mind," Kitty said, aware that she was asking Emma for something extremely personal and she'd been in the middle of something. "If it's not a good time, I can wait." Could and would, but everything in how Kitty held herself said that it would be the painful sort of waiting when you couldn't think of anything else.

She gathered the pendant again, fingers curling around it and her heart also clenching like it, too, could grasp the necklace. She just needed to know. She had to find out.