Even though he's wearing a mask, it's entirely obvious that he is way too pleased that he punned and she caught it. It was a good pun. A terrible pun. Good wrapped in terrible like an amazing burrito.

He glances at her mask loosening and falling. "Huh. I really am your muse of character growth tonight, Jen. You're just full of secrets."

Wade glances around, casually checking to see if anybody nearby would have heard. It doesn't seem so, but in a party made to steal secrets he's sure somebody is listening. Maybe the masks themselves. He has had more than one love interest that would have done it exactly like that. (Although to be fair, at least one of those love interests might have made the masks to eat people's faces too, so.)

"You want to stay here, but you're afraid that you're dangerous, even to these people." His lips twist a little. "I get it."