"Well, forgive me for throwing a wrench into your plans," she says, with a little more bite than she originally intends, though the emotion in her eyes doesn't quite match up with her tone when she turns to him.

"I get it, okay? I've been there. I know how it feels to lose someone you care about, someone you lo - "

Something in her voice breaks and she pauses, reeling, trying to regain control of a situation that's spun out of her grasp long before this conversation even started tonight.

"I didn't expect anything like this to happen when I met you."