It was different to the choices that she had made in Arizona. The choices she had made because she felt backed into a corner, like a dog that knew better than to bite. And so she said, "I know. I choose to show you." Partly because the longer she left it, the more she would be thinking about it.
She stepped back from him a little and then, with unsteady hands, she unwrapped the towel from around herself completely, holding the corner of it in her hand down at her side.