"Ugh. I'm sorry. This is a bad topic for me." Julian made move to get up. His heart stung. What was he going to say? He'd lied before to soothe her, but what was the problem? Alex was happy in a relationship, truly, honestly happy, and so was Julian. But what could he do? He couldn't go against his nature. And telling that he was straight would be going against his nature. That wouldn't be the real him.