"I am not!" The violent rebuttal burst out of her mouth immediately. How could Anubis say something so hurtful, so out of character, so... so... so wrong! "I am not in love with him, a little bit or otherwise!"
She couldn't be. Because she didn't do that. Ever. Even more than the dating and the crying thing, she didn't do that. Because if it was even remotely true, if she did love him, then it was the end of everything. It was the end of how her life had been. It was the end of partying and orgies and fun.
But, a little tiny voice in her heart whispered, it could be the beginning of something new and wonderful, something even better.
The fear of what that could do to her though, if she lost it after having it, had her squashing that voice out as thoroughly as possible. And smacking Nubie in the shoulder. "You take that back! I don't love him! I can't! Take it back!"
He had to. He had to! Because that stupid little voice in her heart was now sounding an awful lot like her brother's. And she wanted to trust it in spite of herself.