"I didn't say I'd do it when they were all there! And it's comments like that one that make it easy to resist your charms," she added before biting his thumb.
But, she twisted at the waist a moment later and hugged him. "It doesn't have to be. Maybe instead of just taking over for John, you can talk to him? Make him an adviser? He's family. He loves you. And he knows how lonely it is. Maybe he never truly led, but he was raised to lead and what little I know of his childhood sounds awfully lonely. The buck has to stop with one man, I know. But, you can share some of the burden." She smirked. "And he knows me well enough to tell you whatever I might say if I were there. Second best option to the real thing."
Kissing his chest because it was the closest thing, she turned back around. "Judgment Day, huh. I guess that would explain it."