Relationship. This was going, faster, then Richard expected. Richard was a man who was most decidedly out of practice in this area of expertise. Relationships, dating, they were for a younger group of people. Ones who were able to keep up; who weren't still broken inside. After so long being alone he wasn't sure what to do with it.

His brows creased as he thought, trying to process this sort of thing was just outside his wheelhouse. "I," He started, still trying to get whatever words would fit together right out to her. It wasn't that he didn't want a relationship with her. In the purest form or the term they already had one. Several, in fact, and it was more then he'd had with anyone in years. "I'm not sure I'd feel, comfortable, calling anyone my girlfriend."

Even saying the term now, felt weird. It just didn't fit. Alex Reagan, his girlfriend. No, that didn't sound right at all. It sounded hollow and simple, and what he and Alex were was far deeper then that.