When she tenses up and pulls away, breaking the kiss, it confuses him. He thought she'd wanted it. Or at least like it.

His fingers slip from her hair when she puts space between them. But still, she doesn't storm off or turn away from him or shove him or slap him, and somehow, that confuses him even more.

And when she tells him to go...he won't.


"Your reputation -- the curse -- you think I care about that?" he says, defiant. "That it's actually gonna affect me?"