Oh. Ohhhh! Oh! Okay! Okay, well that shed some light on a few things. Dominic laughed — not much, and kindly, more touched by Gavin’s decency than amused by the mix-up. “No, no, no. We’re not dating. We’re great friends and sometimes we’ve been lovers, but only extremely casually, on a whim, months apart.” Curiously, Dominic noted his own use of the past tense, as though he wanted to demonstrate that if Gavin liked monogamy, it wasn’t off the table for them.