"It was sort of eating at me," he said with entirely too much fake sincerity. He was glad to hear it though, even if he wasn't going to be serious about it. Meaning a lot to each other was a good place to leave things.
'You couldn't have cut and run when she gave you the chance? You had a perfect opening.' Rick ignored Allan. That was starting to be his default response to the reincarnate. It was amazing it had taken him this long to figure out that that was probably the best plan. On some points, anyway.
"Nope." He shook his head and gave her a nudge. "If I'm getting out of this bed, you'd better come keep me company."