“With a family like mine we could keep several business running on our birthdays and anniversaries alone,” he joked back, glancing down to their hands as he turned his to thread his fingers through hers. “Maybe next time I won’t need a guise to do that?”
He looked over to his teammates when she did, though only briefly before he looked back to her. “Depends,” his smile softened, his fingers still playing idly with hers. They were so dainty compared to his, so frail looking compared to how strong he knew her to be. He was sick and tired of hiding away, angry with himself for the situation he had landed himself in by being too stupid back when he married Ruby, and even more so that it was affecting Cho now. “Do you want to join me?” he asked, then gave her hand a gentle squeeze. “I mean, are you ready to the attention it may cause?”