"It's okay," Ben said, but he was obviously uncomfortable. He had pulled his hand back a second after she removed hers, and now he scooted his chair back to stand. It was his fault she didn't know anything about his life, but there was a reason he hadn't brought it up. There were a lot of things he didn't necessarily want to talk about, and he hadn't been preparing himself to get into all of this today.

"Let me know when you want to go and I'll set it up," he said by way of closing the conversation.

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