"I didn't tell you to date anyone did I?" Alec refrained from ordering any food because he wouldn't like any of it anyway. "It was just a suggestion and I don't know any single women. At least not in that way." Though her and Ellie would get on.

He sighed and leaned back.

"I don't know. Some drugged Valentine's sweets or something like that. I could not stop bloody eating them and it made me--" He gestured. "If it makes you feel any better I didn't actually mean any of it." Which was mostly a lie but for the better.