Hale liked cooking. It was one of his quirks. His mother had made sure he knew how to at least prepare a few things, and he'd picked up his own recipes over the years as well. He found that on the rare occasions that he did have a date, it impressed them. Not that it made a difference in the long haul.
"She might be," he said, voice lower now, Adian having crept back into his mind. "You never know."
At her confession, he was sadly not surprised. "Well, at least I know she has some company," he said with a slight shrug. She wasn't going to steal anything. Hopefully she wouldn't bring her work to his home, though. "Sorry my collection sucks. I'm not a big reader."