"It'll be okay," Héctor says. But then why does he feel so guilty for asking?

"I meant given my own history of 'cautiousness,'" he explains with a small, easily faked laugh of his own.

It doesn't last.

"It's selfish of me though, isn't it? Not that I want you to be hurt, but saying something like that? Trying to make you stay without even asking if that's what you want?"