Grudging admiration voice: Miles

Grudging admiration voice, reluctant, gruff, and sincere

Prompt: Male voice built on grudging admiration—gruff, reluctant, and surprised into respect against its will. The tone is rough and hesitant, a compliment dragged out through clenched pride, warmth breaking through the gruffness. There's an honest, didn't-want-to-say-it sincerity to it. It sounds like a voice that fully expected to be unimpressed, got proven wrong, and is admitting it with visible, endearing reluctance.

Script: All right, all right, look. I'm not gonna stand here and pretend I thought you had it in you. I didn't. I figured you'd fold, same as the others, but you didn't. You stuck it out, you did the work and... ah, don't make me say it. Fine, it was good. It was really good. There. Happy?