The anger faded from her eyes and she said, "I told you that I trust you and I meant it. I've wanted you to look at me as a woman for almost as long as we have known each other, and... I just don't want to remember being touched as a bad thing. He never... did more than knock me around. You wouldn't do that... at least I trust that you wouldn't." She sighed when he pulled her to him. She liked that he just pulled her to him, she liked the way his arms felt around her.