Alex
Thankfully, Tom didn’t bring any hookups home with him that weekend. Not that Alex was a prude, but inviting any vaguely attractive stranger into your place struck him as a spectacularly bad idea. What if the person wanted to rob you, or worse? You should get to know someone before allowing them into your home, and vice versa.
Technically he hadn’t known Tom before moving into the man’s spare room, but Will had been friends with Tom for over twenty years, so that was all right. Testaments to character from a reliable third party were acceptable, and Alex had it on good authority from both Will and Josiah that Tom could be trusted.
So he wasn’t worried about Tom, but some random guy from a bar or club? That was a different matter altogether. Alex didn’t know how anyone could sleep w
