It hadn't always been this way. Kitty was used to being carefree, spirited, outrageous, but she had been forced to change of late.
Gone were the late nights and unacceptable behaviour - she was learning to grow up and face the consequences of her actions.
Kitty was married, and when she thought of her recent behaviour she felt her face flame and the shame wash over her. Groaning, she turned over in bed and pulled the duvet over her head. She always reacted this way when she contemplated her actions. She couldn't face seeing anyone or speaking until the emotion passed.
Because she had not just been bad, she had been terrible, and now Kitty realised it was nothing to be proud of.
In the spirit of facing up to her actions, she looked back to last summer, when she had allowed herself to be seduced.
He had swept in, sensed her loneliness, and targeted her until she submitted. Now, Kitty wished she had never allowed herself to get in that situation, but she could see how it happened and once it had started she was enjoying herself too much to have the strength to call a stop to it.
He had seduced her over the email at first. She would be sat at the job she despised when an email from him would pop up.
'How's the sexiest woman since the Madonna made blue the new black?' he asked one day. Really, how can any girl fail to respond to such 'harmless' flirting? She had always assumed it was harmless, mainly because he, too, was married.
Then, matters had taken a more serious turn. ' I want you. I want to have an affair with you,' he had said one night when drunk. That was then followed by an email: 'I meant every word I said. Please meet me so we can talk.'
And all of a sudden, Kitty had found herself driving to meet him. All the way there she had promised herself she was only seeing him to put him straight and tell him an affair was a very bad idea. That resolve continued right until she saw him bounding towards her as she parked her car. He looked so excited to see her and all of a sudden Kitty felt buoyed up that someone wanted her - HER - so very much.