"Oh really," he murmured, "If I didn't know better, I'd say that was just an excuse to have her hands on you."
He did know better, though; it would be practically impossible not to. Tristan and subtle very rarely went in the same sentence together. Unless they were separated by the words 'is not very'.
"Maybe I could help you with that?" he ventured, "Not the drifting so much as the rubbing..."
He smirked a little; that had come out wrong, but ... whatever. It worked either way, probably. He let it be.