He'd heard the expression a deer caught in headlights his entire life, but this was the first time he'd seen the genesis of it. If her eyes were any more frozen, if any of her was, she'd ice over.

Poor kid.

"I get it. I won't ask anymore if you don't want to talk about it. But if you want to, or want to tell me their names so I'll know if they get here, I'll listen."