Like that he has the offer he's been angling for, and just like that he realises that he's never going to take the other man up on it. Demetri can only think of Fabrice, of his stupidly trusting smile and the fact that this thing he does will hurt the other man. He laughs, almost bitterly, shaking his head. If he ever found out...

"I shouldn't. I really shouldn't." But god does he want to.