That he considered her arrival good news made a faint, but genuine, smile flicker briefly across her face. The fact that she felt the loss of his hand from hers so keenly wasn’t something she let herself dwell on; it was simply a reaction to the news he had told her, that was all. “Well, I appreciate you waiting for me,” she replied. There wasn’t as much teasing to her tone as there might have been, had she not just had her feet knocked out from under her, but there was some.