She was breathing in short, sharp little gasps when Rufus pulled away. Her eyes were closed. It shouldn't feel like this, but she couldn't stop it from feeling like this.
"We..." Maria managed, trying to put her fractured mind into some semblance of working order. It was one thing to tease and to kiss, to play with one another. But this was altogether something far greater. Something that was starting to scare her.
"We can't do this," she finally said. "God help me, I want to, but we can't." They couldn't do that to the man that was between them. She didn't know what the hell to say to Reno now, what this would do to him. But she had to stop it, then and there.