Alex knew what he was doing of course. Richard was giving her permission to talk to Jeff. That permission really only meant one thing to her honestly, and that was that Richard trusted Jeff. Jeff was brilliant and fantastic and a good friend and someone who was already very like herself, so she wasn't at all surprised that Jeff had earned that trust perhaps even sooner than Alex herself had. (Of course, Jeff had the advantage in that Alex had already came in and broken down so many of the walls that he'd placed as barriers so that he didn't trust other people before that.)

But because he trusted Jeff, Alex also knew that she wasn't going to be talking to Jeff about this. At least, not if she could possibly avoid it. Richard needed to trust someone who wasn't her, and he needed someone who he felt save enough complaining about her to. (Not that he'd ever made a habit of not complaining about her to herself anyway.) So, she wasn't going to do anything that she felt might jeaporidize the friendship between the two men.

Oh, that didn't mean that Alex wasn't going to be Jeff's friend by any means (it was pretty hard to get rid of Alex as a friend when it all came down to it anyway) but she could also be his friend without running to him with concerns that Alex had about Richard, or without mentioning the whole demons and taking over the world thing. It's harder than she wants to admit to stop doing that, but Alex was persistent as hell, and she was going to try.

So, in the end, Alex just smiled at him and nodded before kissing him gently. "Okay." There, she accepted the permission even if she wasn't going to do it.