That he had to think about answering about as hard as he did breathing. "Yep, that's my cutie-pie."

Although, he really would have had to say: it was nice not to get the whole "Wait a minute, how old are you?" eyebrow quirk and chewed lip think. Teresa's mental calm could have put out wars, he was pretty sure. At least a small scale turfwar in the city.

"You wanna say hi? I taught her not to bite."