She couldn't help but be sorry, not just for causing him distress and feeling like she took advantage of him in a bad moment, but for betraying Alex like this. Dead or not, he was still her husband and she was still clinging to the desperate hope that they'd be reunited one day.

She couldn't help but be a little surprised, having been so certain that she had just ruined any potential relationship. "I'd like that," she said softly. "I promise, next time I won't...." Try to kiss him out of the blue? Attempt to use him to fill the hole in her soul that Alex had left behind. "...try to take you by surprise like that."