"He is." Full of shit and a liar. "I'd rather be anywhere else." But he wasn't going to leave her to sit by herself either. That wasn't fair.

"You could pretend I said something horrible and throw a drink in my face and storm out." No one would blame her and if Anthony was keeping tabs on this date, which Alec had no doubt he was, he'd know it was a disaster and that would be the end o fit.