Was that innuendo? Alex was impressed. "Oh it is. I'm happy to provide a demonstration if you'd like." Because Alex would like. He would very much like to kiss the prince's obnoxiously perfect mouth until Henry had no words left in him.

He laughed at the string of, well, he was going to consider them compliments. "Oh please yes, by all means, what other destructive forces do I bring to mind, your majesty?" He was prodding now, deliberately. "Because you should know you are a rip tide, a flash flood, a blinding light and I can't seem to take my eyes off you. So what does that say about me?"

Was this squabbling or flirting? Was it both? God he wanted to kiss him.