Mallory shrugged half-heartedly. She couldn't tell him what she was thinking - that there was no way that he would have agreed to go, or let her go, if he would have known that Benson was her ex.
"Guess so," she finally admitted, "but he's kind of ... over-protective," she finally said, settling on the word she always used when describing him to people. "I just figured I'd leave it at friends."