Betty was going to have to get creative and quickly. Before the rest of the law enforcement showed up at the scene. He was obviously not going to just let her go and touch the body. Stupid City for slowing down her time in getting here. There had to be a reason she was late. But to have someone also interfering with her work, regardless of the affinity she had for him, was a touch annoying.
Maybe if she dropped something near the body. Then she could 'accidentally' touch it. That was a possible plan.
She knit her hands together, discreetly loosening the ring she had gotten from that lily-livered ex-fiance of hers. She wasn't losing the ring, she'd gone so far as to pry it off her own corpse when she'd died to keep it with her. But maybe just drop it near the body.
So that was what she did. "Oops. My ring!" Then, as if it was instinctive, she bent down to pick it up, then pretended to fall off her balance, hand reaching for the body to steady herself.