They were in public? Because Jinx honestly couldn't wrap her mind around there being other people in the world right now. She was deaf to everything but the sound of Gabriel's voice, and even that was taking awhile to catch up to the movement of his lips. The touch to her hand was a reminder that she should be doing something. Saying something. It wasn't until he said her real name that she even made a noise.

The sorceress choked out a chuckle and took her left hand away from her mouth. Keeping the other one clamped firmly down, she nodded her head. A smile broke through the iron grip and she managed a shaky, tearful, but very definite, "Yes." She held her left hand out to him, smiling brightly beneath her palm while tears recalculated their routes from her cheeks to her fingers.

"Yes," she told him again. "A million times: yes."