Anne wants to ask him what happens if they don't. If they refuse to understand. What happens when she's sent back to Ord Mantell for a wedding she now has a vested interest in making sure doesn't happen and he's sent somewhere else for another purpose. She wants to ask him what happens when this all ends?

Then she's there with him, in her gardens, and the sensation of being kissed on top of being kissed is a study in immersion and she swears she can feel it from the inside out.

Anywhere, she tells him without telling him, knowing that he'll just know her answer without her saying it, her mouth occupied by his. Every nerve ending in her body is reacting to his and he'll be able to feel the arousal she's feeling but magnified and she wonders if she's feeling his emotions now, too.