If he could read minds, he would have been offended by that remark… Slightly.

"Oh, but I thought you liked it that way." His tone was much more playful now, back to that joking tone from before. He raised a hand, giving the elder member a 'tsk tsk'. "Larxene would be so disappointed in you."

He laughed, leaning back on the arm of the cough; he was feeling oddly tired. "As you wish."