Her use of 'love' does not go unnoticed, but he doesn't pay very much heed to it as far as the connotation - after all she is a Goddess, much older than he is...who knows exactly what she is possibly insinuating as far as the meaning of the word goes?

"'Course," he replies, nodding gently as his breathing returns to some form of 'normal' - even though his release was over, he was still excited about hers.