She blinked at him, almost at that same moment when he smiled. Red liked that smile, weirdly, though it made her groan, falling back against the seat. "Barney, I'm not in the mood." Another lie. She was always in the mood, but she worried that this time it would lead to more in-the-mood, which would lead to the inevitable.
But she couldn't help but take the bait and size him up, curiously. Where had he been the past month? "Unless...What did you have in mind?" It had to be more interesting than her meager plans of curling up with the latest episode of that house-hunting show.