Levin was leading Rein into territory that could be dangerous for her, and she parried his questions thoughtfully.

“Yeah,” she finally answered.

“It would’ve been something like [me saying], you know, ‘I’m not interested in you. I do not wanna be romantically involved with you.’ I don’t recall anything more specifically, and I don’t recall, you know, certainly there was nobody—there was no fisticuffs or anything like that. Would’ve been, you know, it was almost the same every time I saw him, you know, he wanted, would claim, ‘Oh, can’t we just be friends?’ and then he didn’t want just friendship. He wanted, you know, to—to somehow buy my love...