"I don't know," he replies, and that's a bit jarring, that honesty that catches even him by surprise before he has a second to stop and think about it. "There are a lot of factors back home that don't even enter in here. His ex-wife, for starters, and his daughter. From what we know, he's trying to make things work out with her back home, at least right at this moment."

He clears his throat, taking another decent sip of his beer. "But that's not where we're at here, even though the feelings are working there too."