Everything about him told her a story, and it wasn't the one she'd imagined when she set that note down on the register. "I'm all right," she said immediately, getting it out of the way. Her voice filtered grittily back to her. She pulled her cell phone out of the side pocket of her purse and terminated the connection before putting it away again.
She hadn't taken her eyes off Errol. The tension there was enough to make her nervous. Though it was her instinct to reach out to him, to try to calm him down, something warned her off touching him right now. Any questions she could ask him - Didn't you get my note? Did you hear what Dr. Crane said? - all sounded too accusatory in her head, so she didn't ask them just now. This had been a mistake.
Not going to see Dr. Crane, perhaps, but going about it just like this... that was the mistake. She pulled her lips back behind her teeth and pressed her toes hard against the pavement. This had been cruel.