"More that anyone I'd choose to spend any extended amount of time living with would either be capable of taking care of themselves, or probably be thorny about it if circumstances proved otherwise. Anyone who expects to eternally be waited on hand and foot ... by me ... isn't my type. I have my own ways of taking care of people as my profession."

He sat down and held out Alec's soup. "If it occupied my entire private life as well, I'd burn right out.