By some strange coincidence, she reached for his hand, and as soon as she held it, she noticed that the other person quickly pulled away.
Huge loss hit her, and her heart sank heavily. Her first reaction was to find an excuse to cover up her inner embarrassment at the moment. She wanted to explain, for example, that she met him accidentally, but the excuse that came to her mind was immediately rejected. It was too clumsy and would make the two of them even more embarrassed.
Before she could think of what to say, she felt her stiff and cold fingertips being grasped, and then a warm palm came over and held her.