Nikolai risked a look at her to judge her reaction. She wasn't angry, that was good. She seemed... Pleased. But, again, she was drunk. Maybe not as much as she had been, but it was enough. Still, there was no point in lying to her.
"I do," he said with a shrug of his free shoulder. "Because I am not blind. Does that bother you?" It didn't look like it did, but it didn't really hurt to ask.