Alec hadn't really intended to make Lenore feel guilty. This wasn't a contest of who's life sucked more. He was just trying to put into perspective what kind of people she was trying to date. Some of them were emotionally incompetent. Alec made a face when she said it wasn't the same thing, because friendships were the same thing as a relationship to him. There was literally no line for him. But nobody had ever told him that they don't want to share the intimacy before either.
Alec reached out an arm, curling it around Lenore and pulling her close. "You don't know anything personal about me, though," he said. "How're you gonna be intimate with that? I could be a closeted serial killer and you wouldn't even know it yet."