Ada allowed it more out of surprise than anything else; she hadn't been 'mothered' (or parented at all) for years. Hell, she couldn't remember the last time Marti had touched her affectionately, and Ada wasn't sure if that was because it had been so long since it happened, or because that was a memory that Alabama had eaten and she'd never gotten back.

She followed Anasztaizia's gaze, and didn't bother to hide her sigh. "Yeah, like that's a surprise."

Ada would have been needed to be blind and deaf for the last few years not to have figured out that Hyacinthe's affection for Phèdre went past 'friendship.'