seconds ticked by as i struggled to find my voice . what was it you said earlier ? i could never live with myself if my selfishness placed you in danger . no one seemed to be at all interested in stopping the cat fight that was going on in front of them . both could n't have come at a better time , considering how little there was in her bank account now that she lived in such an expensive part of the country . it had n't been that way before . 