Alex not doing something dumb for a change would be a minor miracle, and Richard didn't believe in miracles. So he simply let the promise, one she couldn't possibly keep, roll over him. He wouldn't keep her to it, but he'd most certainly lecture her about it once she'd done it. So long as it wasn't as bad as meeting Warren alone just to bait him or going to Turkey alone to meet a confessed murderer and escaped mental patient.

Her explanation of what she would do made completely no sense. A reporter was the last person someone would want to talk to. "People aren't going to want to talk to a reporter. I speak from experience." It had taken her eleven calls to get him to even think about calling her back (partially because he was sick of getting the messages), and he had been being nice.