He knew that laugh fairly well by now, and it got a raised eyebrow out of him. "I don't suppose I'd ever thought of it as an emotion before." Safe to say he'd never really thought of it as such, not even when he was young. Someone else had for him.

He brought his free hand to her hip and let his grip do some of the talking for him. "One would have to wonder exactly what they would be getting out of this," he murmured.