"I'm not sure you really want to know. He's got some dark secrets." She had some damned good baked goods from him not too long ago.

But that pause is one she continues to recognize. The people she deems safe are growing. This guy is definitely one of them, and she's only known him two minutes. She'll carry the conversation because he doesn't seem to want to dwell on it. She's not going to ask him if he's okay if it might get him in trouble--what she's really worried about.

"He's annoying as a brother might be."