It actually startles a laugh out of him and he ducks his head over his coffee to contain it before looking back over at her with mirth sparkling through his gaze. What an idiot.

"I can tell you like it too," he points out teasingly, not sure if he's trying to goad her into denying it, but he thinks he likes when she gets indignant. He finishes off his dumb, smug statement with a canine head-tilt before slurping down more awful, burnt coffee that's still somehow too hot just to sip.