Alec kept staring at Izzy's nails and the bottle of base coat, trying to remember exactly what he'd said. "I didn't say." With anyone else he would have made up an excuse or not bothered to answer but Izzy had always been there for him, being the voice of reason when he needed it. "I don't know what I want." Other than the Inquisitor to give the Institute back to him. "I told him that I used to wish that I could have the choices that you and Jace have."

She'd probably be angry over that answer but she also knew how he always put their happiness before his own.