As he led her by the hand to the dining room table, Clara Grant suddenly wondered, 'Does a relationship between a man and a woman change after something sexual happens? Or even just something sex-related?'
'Does it become more intimate? Or maybe their interactions just become more casual, natural, and relaxed?'
'Take them, for example. Before, she had always pushed him away. Even setting Miles Quinn aside, she'd held a grudge against him and was always trying to avoid him.'
'But now, she had actually come back to his home with him, let him hold her hand, and was even starting to mentally talk herself into accepting him!'
'And it seemed like all of this only started to change this morning, after she... helped him out in the car.'
'Even though it didn't count as actually having sex, it was still an intimate act that she'd engaged in with him while fully conscious.'
