"Twenty-one," Shane Sanders replied. He didn't know who the man was, so he didn't dare address him casually.
"Well now, you're quite a few years younger than my Lyric... I'm not against a younger man dating an older woman, and you seem like a decent fellow... But you're only twenty-one. Would your family approve of you finding a wife so much older than yourself?"
Shane Sanders' eyes darted, his heart filled with glee, but then he saw Serena Lockwood get flustered. "Grandpa, you've got it all wrong! This young man was injured last night while saving me, and there's no one home to look after him, so I brought him here to recover for a few days. He's not my boyfriend. And I have no intention of getting a boyfriend..."
At these words, the light in Shane Sanders' eyes dimmed slightly.
