With his face tucked away, he couldn't see her face, but he could probably hear the sharp, shocked intake of breath and the way her chest shuddered for a moment.

"I--yeah. You too. This sounds so lame, but I just don't--there are no words for how--" Right. Babbling. Stop that. "Dante, I..."

The silence hung in the air for a moment.

"...I don't really have a better way of putting it than how you did." She shook here head, a brief motion. "Everything in my life is better just because you're apart of it. And that's been true for much longer than just this past year."