"A long time?" Simmons echoes, not entirely sure she had seen it coming for a long time, but she certainly doesn't want to dissuade him from liking her, for a long time. "I've grown to like you very much too," she says. "For a long while, I didn't see it or think about it, because of Fitz, but I started to allow myself to think of it, too."

"And I do like you."