"And you're the one who was reaming me out for being an idiot," Gabriel said with a roll of his eyes. "Just because you can doesn't meant you have to if you've got the chance not to. Wasn't that part of the point of your little speech last night?"

The fact that she went at the bread like she was starving only made him smirk. He'd already eaten soggy bread and didn't feel like any more quite yet, so he re-opened the half-empty bag of chocolate chips instead. Dessert was best first.