Izzy looked skeptical at this, peering at him as she thought it over. "How do you know that's what everyone assumed? Did people actually come up to the two of you and say so, or was it just Adam who suggested it?"

It hurt Izzy's heart that Alec was so lonely and so certain that he was going to stay that way. She wanted her brother to be happy, and from what she'd heard--and seen--Adam seemed to have some interest in that direction, too. "He really said that you shouldn't have come out?" she asked, wanting that to not be true because it otherwise seemed like her brother and the magician might be genuinely into each other.