[It's been coming for a while, really, so it shouldn't catch him by surprise. And yet it does. He seizes up, but for all that it shocks him and for all that Robert is just so shy about such intimacy, he still craves it - has for a long time now. His hand grips the table in front of him at first, but soon it finds Bella's waist, the other her shoulder.

The real problem is the way his head spins so he can hardly tell what's happening.]