He doesn't budge though, turning slightly to look at Vasquez, though as he speaks, he doesn't lower his voice.

"Were they insulting me or you? I don't care what they say about me, but my family is off limits," he says, voice the strongest that perhaps she's heard it, emphasizing those words that marked her as family. It's acceptable to be insulted that they would treat his family bad, and why wouldn't he just keep his head down as it were if she was something else to him.

At least that is the logic going in his head.