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Stud muffin? I repress a smile. “I am an old man.”
“Point taken.” She cocks her head. “If we’re going to…spend time together, we should maybe go on a date or something.”
“A date?” ’Tis something I have never done. In the Dark Ages, you courted, you married, or you fucked.
“Yeah. We’ve, um…shared the sheets, but don’t really know each other.”
True, but fate and magic have already decreed that matters not. “We get on well enough.”
“In bed,” she whispers. “I don’t know much about you. Brothers? Sisters?”
“A younger sister. Analise was always happy, if too talkative and nosy.” I have not spoken of her or anyone from my childhood in centuries. I forgot how much I miss them.
Olivia slips into the driver’s seat with a wistful smile. “I always wanted a sister. What about your parents?”
I climb into the seat beside her, watching as she starts the car and pulls into traffic. “My father was a warrior for his chieftain and died in battle my twelfth summer. He was rarely home, so I knew him not. My mother was sweet and even-tempered but superstitious. She told me to avoid Morgana. Would that I had listened.”
“So fifteen hundred years is a long time.” Olivia pauses and bites her lip. “You must have married a few times.”
“Never. When I was mortal, I was too busy making war.”
“And taking all the women to bed.”
“That, too,” I admit wryly.
“But in later centuries, you never married? Or took a girlfriend?”
“Nay.”
She looks shocked. “Come on. You must have had a relationship with someone…”
“I could give no one my body and chose not to give anyone my heart. Why bother?”
“Then why bother with me?”
How could I answer without blurting everything and overwhelming her? “You are different.”
“Because you can orgasm with me?”
“’Tis a much-welcome boon but not the sum of my reasoning.”
“Or because I might be able to end your curse?”
’Twas her initial appeal, but now… Do I dare tell her of these new feelings I can scarcely understand? “I only know that we are connected.”
“Yeah. It’s bizarre to feel so tied to someone I barely know. Most people date and talk, then decide if they’re interested in more. Everything’s backward for us.”
“And you propose we become better acquainted on a date?”
“It makes sense.”
“You understand that, in my era, that concept existed not. I know the meaning of the word, but I have never been on an outing in public with a female with the express purpose of getting to know her.”
“If it’s any consolation, I haven’t been on many dates, so we’ll be the blind leading the blind. But it’s a beautiful day. We could explore the city together. When was the last time you really saw London?”
“A few years.”
Olivia shoots me a leveling glare. “Which means centuries.”
