As full of himself as Lucas was, any tightness that might have belied the true source of Xavier's questions went completely unnoticed. It wasn't that he was an oblivious person, there was just no reason right now to concern himself with any sort of suspicion. "Just a couple years," Lucas explained, looking up towards the afternoon sky, the skyscrapers towering above them.
"I've been courting her since college. She was a stubborn little thing and didn't want to get married until she had heard news about something. I thought it was pretty silly since we could have been settled down much sooner, but you know how women are." He let out a laugh, bright and jovial, and before they knew it, they were at the door of Osha. Lucas skipped forward to pull the door open, giving an extravagant flourish. "After you, good sir," he said, going so far as to scrape into a bow. This was the man who could ave him. It didn't hurt to put on airs.