"No, not a test," she said tiredly as she sunk onto the floor. "Just..."

Just what? Even Sharon really didn't know.

"I'm not trying to prove anything!" She didn't realize she'd snapped right back at him until after she'd spoken. How the hell did he get under her skin like this so easily?

"I just wanted to show you what it's like. You said you wanted to know everything," she rationalized to herself, "and so I was showing you how easily I manipulated Helo into falling in love with me. Or how easily Boomer made the Chief fall in love with her, too. You didn't pull away from me right away, did you? I'm a frakking toaster, and you didn't pull away at all."