"Ugh, fine," Sean said with a roll of his eyes -- but his entire expression was bemused, if anything. "You are way too good at getting me to do to things, you know that? You're so lucky I love you."
There weren't words for how good it felt to be able to say that to someone -- not just that he had someone he wanted to say it to, but that he was comfortable enough with himself to say it, and in public. The past couple months with Alex -- and had it really only been a couple months? -- had done wonders for Sean.