"Quite a while. I have lost track of time," Damon admitted a bit embarrassingly, lifting his other hand and running it through the curls of his hair as he watched her. "But I had been mostly alone except for Katherine, and then my brother showed up. We are now living together and we just bought a dog." He was still quite happy about that because now he and his brother could do whatever they wished without their father trying to interfere with their lives. "He is a husky, still quite small, and we named him Beowulf." The man ducked his head a bit and grinned, then turned to look at Katherine once more.