"I almost always hate when people look at me that way. But you never... pushed it on me. It didn't feel like pressure I needed to squirm out from under."

She kisses Taylor's cheek. "Warren says some people don't want that way until someone already matters. Until they care, or trust. I'm like that. I've never wanted anyone except you or Signy. And I didn't even recognize my feelings for Signy as what they were until after the fact. Until the breach where you and I were together, which is why I took it so badly in the aftermath. Because the way I felt about you in another life made me realize what I'd felt for her in this one. It dug the old hurts in deeper. Thank you for being worth trusting, a thousand times over."