( Chloe gives the smallest of shrugs. She is what she was made to be. There are moments like this, these unexpected moments, that remind her of that fact. Not that one ever truly forgets a fact like that. )

I think I probably am. But, if you don't mind me saying so, maybe there's a little bit of a romantic in you, since you brought up the husband and happily-ever-after.

( Though that could have been nothing more than him picking out the well-worn tropes of the genre. Still. It was the trope he decided to single out.

She did warn him about her reading too much into things.)