He hoped that would be the case in the future too, when it was clear that he wasn't asking her to marry him. This, a relationship, he could handle, or at least he thought so, but marriage? The mere idea had him wanting to run in the opposite direction. Why mess with something that was working?
"Not talking about them sounds like a very good idea," he said with a grin. "And it just happens that I have a few good ideas of my own," he added with a smirk, leaning up to kiss her again as his hands moved up along her side.