Example of an Age Gap Romance Scene

"You're staring," she said. "I'm not staring. I'm assessing." "Assessing." She set down her wine glass. "Is that what men your age call it?" He raised an eyebrow. Forty-four years old and nothing surprised him anymore — except, apparently, this: a woman fifteen years younger who spoke to him like he was a puzzle she'd already half-solved. "Men my age," he repeated. "You make it sound like a condition." "Isn't it?" He laughed. Low, quiet, the kind of laugh that came from the chest and made her stomach do something inconvenient. "You have no idea what you're doing, do you?" "I know exactly what I'm doing." "You're flirting with your thesis advisor." "Former thesis advisor. You signed off on my degree two months ago. You're just a man in a nice jacket now." He looked at her across the restaurant table — the candles, the white tablecloth, the deliberate casualness she'd clearly spent an hour dressing for. She was brilliant. She was going to be someone. She was also looking at him like she wanted something that had nothing to do with academia. "This is a terrible idea," he said. "Probably." "I'm too old for terrible ideas." "You ordered dessert wine at 10 PM on a weeknight. You're exactly the right age for terrible ideas." He flagged the waiter. "Check, please." She smiled. It was the kind of smile that started wars in a previous century.

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