17 THINGS ARE BETTER IN the light of day. Once he gets himself out of bed, Alex looks forward to going to set and getting to work. Liam is unusually quiet. Alex is pretty sure that’s less about his news than because Victor is expected later that morning. Of course, there may be overlap there, but mostly all Alex can see is someone excited about boyfriend and hotel on someone else’s dime. Even if Liam has consistently refuted Alex’s descriptors of the situation every time he’s offered up another little of piece of it for his understanding. Alex finds their relationship strange because it’s not the sort of thing that would ever fit into his life. He can’t even, really, see the appeal of it. But whatever it is, Alex gets that it tugs at them in the same way as that strange, sad night he and

