At a loss as to how he could respond to that, Jerry just ducks his head to kiss her harder for it, hand skimming along her side. Even now, even with what he's just told her and been told in return, this is the best way he's got to tell her how much hearing something like that means, the language he's most accustomed to speaking with her. For a long time, or at least what felt like it, it was the only one they really had. Now, that's far from the truth, Grace's words themselves serving as proof of that, but this still comes more easily than anything else. He doubts — or hopes as much, anyway, for all that he's thinking about it at all — she'll hold it against him.
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