That didn't really answer his question, but she wasn't known for being the most direct speaker.
It was too hard to look her in the eye. It was too hard not to look her in the eye.
"Okay," he said instead of any of the other words floating around in his mind. If she was comfortable with it, he would be happy with it - as laughable as that notion might have been were he to say it when they first met. But it wasn't fair to say it now - he'd been through a lot since then and he wasn't the same man anymore.