Oliver looks beautiful like this. He looks beautiful under most circumstances, but particularly so when he was feeling confident. He looms over Alastair with a mischievous glint in his mossy green eyes.

Alastair thinks that he should reciprocate with a similar expression. That was the normal progression of a situation like this. Oliver winks and Alastair gives him that wolfish grin. Even before Oliver, Alastiar hasn’t been entirely celebate and the dance had been similar with ...