She just nodded, every part of her warming under his gaze, but then conversely she also felt like running as fast as she could in the other direction. There was something going on between them. It was as if they were inviting a deeper intimacy into their already ambiguous relationship, and yet that cool distance was still there, confusing her. Sara's well-worn alarm bells were coming back to clanging life.—-----------

The next day Sara's nerves were jangling. She could remember coming back to ...