"Why?" Tracey asked plainly. "Why set myself up for a fall?" Restlessly she smoothed imaginary wrinkles from her robes.
Laughing suddenly, she added, "hell, I am setting myself for a fall. How utterly stupid is that?"
Merlin, what was she thinking? Just because she wanted Callen in ways she could not, would not, articulate that didn't mean that she should open herself up to be wounded.