"You wore a silk dress to dinner? He is picking you up at school. He is going to a museum. This is surprising!"
Not even best friends needed to know if, as Caydance suspected, Griff needed to assert territory over a hockey-playing, class-auditing, foreign service diplomat to the extent that he was probably missing football practice and a class. There were safety issues involved both at school and at the museum, so his stated reasons were valid. Jack's agency connections had not been able to locate Mackie Alarie.