"Those sounds like famous last words, Richard." There was amusement in them, and a promise of an 'I told you so' later on when he did get home and he needed aloe. Or so Alex thought anyway. Because lord knows she'd said that many times and it had only ended up with her in the lobster coloring that they'd talked about before.

A red coloring that crept into her cheeks anyway when he mentioned that. "I wasn't trying to seduce you into kissing me. I just happened to notice how many times your eyes went to my lips like you wanted to kiss me. So I brought it up, because of course I was going to." That said, she does give him a smirk. "But you did come very close to kissing me then more than once."