“Are you attracted to me?” Not are you still, which was a different question. Not were you ever, which was the most frightening question of all. No, hers was clearly the most incisive and important question, as well as the simplest. Are you? The answer was yes, because as much as he’d ever been attracted to any woman, he was attracted to her. And—there was just no predicting these things—his body was suddenly willing to prove it.
