They'd been doing okay right up until he asked that question. Why did he have to go and do that?
"I've been fine, Roan. How about you?" she asked, her voice carefully neutral. "I saw you on the news. You looked good. At least, you did until you got your head patted like a dog. That was pretty funny. Too bad Sam didn't know what you really like." Okay, that sort of slipped out. She shouldn't have said it, but he was the one who started with the personal question, right?