She looked up at him, expression open. "Did you pull away because I don't interest you that way, or because of what's happening with her?" she asked. She was opening herself up to the vulnerability of the answer, but she wanted to know what the ground rules were. It was very evident in her eyes that she would take whatever he said without argument. "Whatever your response, I'm not going to disappear," she said with a little bit of a stubborn touch to the tilt of her chin, disabusing him of the notion that she'd be easy to run off, regardless of his reply.