"And someone to eat it with," he agreed, because he appreciated both of those things.

She'd been talking about repaying him for various things with a meal for awhile, but for awhile, he hadn't assumed she meant it. Now he knew Inej didn't say too many things she didn't mean, but even then they both had very busy lives. He thought his was about to get busier, with some of the stuff he was pretty sure he'd found out about at the department.

None of that was something he'd mention to her, though, for a lot of reasons. She had said she didn't mind that he was a cop, but he knew that she made her own choices and they didn't always line up with the laws here. He stayed well out of anything that seemed like it might have something to do with her or her businesses, but he still knew that.