"What I want is for you to leave." He glanced away when he saw the fangs, swallowing hard as he tried not to imagine what Magnus would do to him if he gave in. "If you go back to wherever you come from we'll both get what we want." That was too much to hope for, wasn't it?

"It's not going to do anything for me, Magnus." Not quite true but not quite a lie either. He doubted that Magnus could really make Byron more interesting. Alec loved poetry but he had the feeling that an incubus would focus on the surface emotion, not the depth of the work. "People don't woo each other anymore." Which might be why none of the dates Izzy had tried to set up for him never worked. He was too old-fashioned, too boring, for most guys to take an interest in him. "Isn't there something you want to do that doesn't involve sex?"