While normally sitting on a bed would produce a smirk or an eye waggle or even a glint in his eyes, Alec simply sat as if processing something completely different than Corbie on the bed.

What had happened?

It took him a long moment to find his voice and gather a coherent thought.

"If you loved someone and they loved you back. And someone else came and complicated things." He almost looked confused as he talked about it because he simply wasn't used to talking about anything remotely like this. He might have also sounded a little bit like a child asking a grown up for advice. "Would you want the first person to just give you up?"