Maybe it is small, but there's something in it that seems to surprise him. Maybe its delivery in the moment, or Derrica saying it, or the word she chooses. It's a surprise that's received well in the look up from where he'd settled his attention on his fingers tracking the pathway of her clavicle.

"Flatterer," rather than try to repeat the same thing back at her, which feels so absurdly apparent, but he's carding his fingers up into her hair and drawing her into the kind of kiss that makes that sentiment known.

He lets that go on for a moment, before saying, "In every room you enter, or out there in the midst of dancing and music, I can hardly take my eyes off you," sounds like flattery, too, but delivered earnestly, like this is a problem for him personally.