Rogue listened to Steve describe his mother and wished she could have known the woman who'd raised such a wonderful son. He didn't have to say it for her to know that he'd loved his mother dearly, that he was proud to call her family. She envied that.

"She sounds like my kind of woman," she told him with a smile and half a laugh. "I'm sure she'd be proud of the man you've become, and I don't just mean the whole saving the world bit." He was such a good man, she really didn't deserve him.

Rubbing her cheek on his shoulder like a cat scenting its human, she quietly asked, "You had a good life with her, didn't you?"