When they had gone, Sara sat beside me on the bed. The wariness was still there but mixed with something else. Concern, maybe. Compassion. She put her hand on my hand, and I felt the confusion well up once again.

“I’m sorry,” I said. “Maybe. . . .” I stammered, looking for an explanation.

“What?”

“I don’t know. I can’t say. This situation, the way things are with you and me.”

“What are you saying?”

“Maybe it’s the case I'm working. Sometimes, these things, they get inside your head. They twist you around.”

“You frightened me,” she said softly.

I put my arm around her. She was still edgy, but she seemed comforted in my presence, in the slow return to normalcy.

“I’m sorry,” I said again.

“There’s something about you,” she said,  “I can’t resist.”

She laughed a little. Then she kissed me with more sweetness than you might expect. She stroked my hair in back, adjusting my ponytail, fiddling. I touched the back of her head, too, and stroked her, telling her again how beautiful she was, how she reminded me of a girl I’d seen once, in a field of flowers, in an elevator, in a barroom, somewhere, once upon a time. She was a sweet girl but there was another side of her, too. She liked the sense of danger, the darkness underneath. I tasted her lips. I pulled away. I looked around. The aura was gone from the room.

END SNEAK PREVIEW

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