"You are to me. You know, we could keep arguing the finer points of semantics, or you could just let me win for the sake of letting me win." Putting on her best innocent look, she turned up the power for cute and adorable. Sometimes it really was the best weapon.

But at least she got the chance to grin at that small victory over Jace being mindless. She would take them where she could get them and focus on more important things...

Like the fact he just told her it was okay to be forward with him. It felt like a switch was turned on inside of her brightening and erasing shadows of doubt. "Would it?" Sometimes she could tell he loved her... it was the depth of the love she wasn't sure about. Sometimes her hope for more over shadowed the reality.

Smiling in return at his smile, she half closed her eyes in content happiness. "You're always my favorite person." She didn't let other people touch her unless it was absolutely necessary. Yet with him... she'd do anything to feel him close.

And something about his comment about her forward tactics and the way he let his hand linger that made up her mind. Keeping his hand on her face, she rose slowly. In a few careful movements, she slid into his lap and hooked her legs over an arm of the chair. Her heart beat fast in her chest, causing her to bury her face in his chest a moment while still holding his hand.

"Let me stay close to you, Alec? Please?" Even if she only got slight cuddles or simply being held... she wanted that closeness with him.