In the grand scheme of things, having Angie in his house probably wasn't a great idea. Having Angie help with his incapacitated wife wasn't ideal, and it certainly wasn't improved at all by the recent Witch Weekly article. It was the best option available to him at the moment, though, because Angie was here and no one else was, and Ben didn't think he'd come down from everything enough to handle this correctly just yet. The shock of finding Melody passed out was still fresh, not to mention the fight from just moments ago. Gossip was the least of his worries, at the moment — first he needed to make sure Melody was going to get through this.

"Y-yeah," he agreed, with his hands still in his hair. "Yeah. Thanks, Ange."