Athos swallows hard, resisting the shudder that goes through him as they stand so close. A terribly long time has passed since anyone touched him with passion, and he cannot deny that he has been tempted. But he will not pay in humiliation, and that is all that Porthos has offered - through theft, and mockery, and now this attempt to dictate what he should do with his own life. “Your loss,” he says tartly. “Get out."