“I’m sure you crushed it,” he tells her, and it isn’t just him blowing smoke. Steve seems to keep surrounding himself with women who are smarter than him, but they don’t make him feel like an idiot.

Well, Nancy did. Sometimes. But he’s pretty sure she didn’t mean to.

“Maybe that’s not a bad thing.” He turns a little on the sofa and stretches one arm along the back of the sofa, letting his hand come to rest inches from her head. “You’re about to get your own place and everything, so now you’ll have a little time to settle before you start school.”

He smirks a little and takes another long pull from his beer. “Everyone deserves a little time to just fuck around and do nothing.”

Lifting his hand, he curls it into a fist and nudges his knuckles gently against her jaw. “Even you.”