Thanks for the comment on my Neal story! Sorry it took me a while to respond to your comment, I've been busy with classes and work and I always feel like a jerk when I don't respond to all of my readers' comments >.<
Well technically Ashley didn't actually admit her feelings. But it's mostly obvious she likes him and Claude is a guy so he doesn't need her to say it to him as much as she needed to hear how he felt. But in the last chapter he did need something from her and she gave him a little. Eventually she'll do the full blown admission of her feelings, but I actually haven't written that yet. Hmmm. Something for me to think about.