"Thank you," he said, grinning at her. "That's all I'm asking for. That you both," he stressed that word, because he would be speaking with Ronan as well. "try to at least pretend to get along." It would be better than nothing.
He hugged her quickly, glad that they weren't fighting and that he wasn't going to have to choose. "Nick, I know you mean well but I like when he mandhandles me," he said, a secretive grin on his face. "He would never hurt me, or do anything I don't want." He wasn't about to discuss their private relationship with her, so this was going to have to be enough.
"Okay, poor Allison is probably wondering where we've gone off to, and I've ignored the bar long enough. We good?"