"Why go back?" Burr asks, because he does not want Alexander to leave. "The work will be hard on you, the further along it goes. Why not stay here? I could give you work. And it would not be contingent on our relations. I have a guest bedroom. Clerk work--work that requires thought. You have always had a keen mind." Flattering, always a useful tactic, with one such as him.

"You would do well with the clients. Many of them would be more soothed, with an omega than with an alpha. Many have been mistreated, by alphas."