I gathered that. Again, he has to resist the desire to roll his eyes at this entire conversation. This all feels patently absurd to him.

Admittedly, Gideon does assume that Ashura has reason to worry about Felix straying--not because of Gideon's presence but because Felix's grasp of monogamy was always more tenuous than Gideon preferred. But Gideon himself will be damned before he serves as someone else's Isaac Garamond. And so all of this is nonsense.

Do you make any other demands of me? Shall I be careful not to look him directly in the eye?