And he doesn't deny it. The problem with (and the attraction to) Takeshi Kovacs: he's impossible to predict. The more pressing problem, not especially attractive: he's still pissed with her, maybe more than he was before he came back to The Raven.

(If someone asked her later, she wouldn't actually be able to blame him for that.)

"I'm a detective. Picking scabs is what we do." That seems to be his impression, anyway. She takes a step forward, making no effort to reach for him this time. (She wants to. Touching Elias calmed him down sometimes. She doesn't do it.) And she remembers the last conversation they had, the place where he stopped responding, the place where he cut off contact. Her voice softens, not deliberately. "I didn't say the right thing to you, last time we talked."