She'd called it a friendship. For a moment Gabriel said nothing, because the acknowledgement was entirely unexpected, the sort of thing no one he knew would ever had said out loud, one of those things he would have avoided just in case the suggestion messed things up.

So his voice was just a little less steady, a little less sarcastic, and a little warmer than it ought to have been. "Hey, they sound like good descriptive words to me. Or are you gonna tell me you never had the urge to try and shoot me yet? I'd have to call you a liar if you say that."