Great. Now he couldn't even look at her. She'd gone and made him uncomfortable and now things would be awkward -- but he hadn't been uncomfortable when she was standing there so... maybe it was something else? Karl wasn't the kind of man to get all mopey over a rejection, was he?
Suck it up, Wheldon, Alyssa's eyes narrowed, mental pep talk as much for herself as for Karl. You're stuck with me until the end of this op. I'm your partner, and you'll damn well treat me like one.
...and if she noticed the way that his arms flexed and his abs rippled that was just because she wasn't blind.
Alyssa exhaled. She waited until Karl looked at her before she continued. "Good. I don't think that the meet will take place at the club. There's just too much attention, and all of the rooms in there are in use all of the time. But Martinez is a real control freak, there's no way he'd let anything happen outside of his territory."