I never said you were!

Snake smiles up at her and tries to pull her closer so he cn kiss her again.

Snake scowls.

You did! "Hardly you can surpass Hercules...or... Ulysses..." Sounds to me like you would rather be with them. Snake was boiling with a furious jealousy that he couldn't control. He was happy and the Hell if anyone was going to start stripping it away again.

Friend or not, I don't like competition. He smiled at her playfully but there was something deadly to the expression too.