Pretty boy?

All right then. "I'm not nice out there. But I'm in here now and you're in here too. I don't want to be mean to you for no reason. Besides, Leonard wouldn't like it. I wouldn't survive that." Hartley smiled and turned his attention to Axel fully while the rice was on a soft boil. Dinner should be done soon. "There's not a lot to take advantage of with me."

He wondered now whether Axel was a rentboy. Not the first he'd met. No way to ask though.