It was possible that someone with lesser nerves would be feeling just a bit self-conscious at the level of attention right about now, but not Adam. He accounted it to a natural flirtatiousness that seemed to be so hard-wired into Tristan.
Although, Adam almost stopped short in his own sense of conversational easiness when Tristan asked him about an interest in guys. How to say that he might have had moments when he wasn't uninterested in them, without either lying, or not denying it in a way that Tristan would blow out of proportion. Because it was no big deal, not in the way Tristan meant. Everyone at least had the occasional thoughts, and, like most, he'd never gone beyond that. All this, Adam had firmly decided.
"Much as I enjoy your lines, it'd be a crime to waste those sparkling gems on me," he deflected instead with what he intended to be a smooth and unnoticeable manner. "Maybe that guy you wrote about - the one who stayed for breakfast, might appreciate them. Didn't you mention having a date with him?"