“You said you can’t fly. That’s the same thing.”
He smiled, and the smile changed his whole face. It wasn't a young man's smile—it was slower, arrived in stages, like sunrise. “I was just thinking,” he said, “that my wife used to make a cobbler. I haven’t had it since she passed.”
“I didn’t think I’d get to do that again,” he said.
There was no awkwardness in the way he said it. No looking away. Elena liked that immediately. She was tired of men her age who pretended they had no past, as if a fifty-nine-year-old bachelor was a plausible thing.