He looked over the piece with them.  The darkness and movement had caught his eye.  It was sexually arousing without belonging to a pin-up magazine, like Victoria.  Powerful, moving, graceful and totally sexual without being fully in your face about it.  A word plays through his mind, a word his girlfriend would have said 'sensual'.  He growled mentally at the link to her in his mind.  His hand tightened around the glass. It was in that moment, Victoria stepped to the side of him and he was almost grateful.  He didn't notice the line-up that put him in yet though, only that she had let go just as he tightened up in his anger and pain.  He forced it from his mind to concentrate on the moment.<br/><br/>“I'm not sure I like it afterall.” he proclaims.  More due to the sudden thought of Sabine than anything to do with the piece.  He did force his body to relax just in time for Victoria to be on the other side of him.  He turned to look at Anthony and noted the man very near him.  He did have to admit, the man looked stunning in his suit.  The mere thought made him balk, wondering where such a thought came from.  The light in that long hidden recess seemed to be growing, getting harder to ignore.  That area where he was willing to be a partner to Anthony.  He suddenly shifted, uncomfortably.<br/><br/>Aware that this was a homosexual party and Anthony was his date, he realized he could not dodge being 'with' the man he invited to play the role of his partner.  Alex sucked in his breath, downed the full glass of champagne and signalled the server for another.  He turned back with a dimpled smile.  “Are there any pieces here that catch your eye?”<br/><br/>He didn't really catch gender of the being in the painting, only the movement and sexual nature of the piece.  Later, though, he would swear it was two females and a male.  What guy wouldn't want that?  Two women focused solely on pleasing him?  That would be a night to have.  He looks at Victoria and wonders if she would be interested in such a night.  Though who would play the third person, he hadn't any clue.  He didn't have any in mind at all to cast for that part.  Unlike the two Alex was with who already had the roles decided and cast.  Then again, Alex was still thinking he was in charge of this little trio.<br/>