"Well, it's not as if I've told you anything he doesn't already know--there's a selection, I am seeing people, this and that," Krem said, and then gave a sort of cheeky smile.

With Noah, things had been straight forward and obvious as soon as he'd moved in. It was perhaps obvious, given such circumstances as their cohabitation, that they were intimate--though the intimacy had predated the cohabitation, as it ought to have. The others...

"My well-being is as well as can be expected," Krem assured, softly. He shrugged.