"Okay," Sam said with a nod, taking her request absolutely serious. He didn't want to see Kate do anything that she would really regret later. Losing someone you cared about was miserable and Sam could see all too well how badly someone might want to get involved in some destructive behaviors because of it.

"Just to be clear, I will be checking up on you about this. I'm not going to go full on stalker mode or anything but I care about you too much to not check in on you, okay?"