She'd rather have him be mad at her for this than go and get into trouble, so Aleja is ready to take her lumps and let him think that she's the one being insulting. Better for him to think that she's not someone special to him than ruin his good reputation.

Vasquez nods as she starts to haul the trunk with him, pushing it and glancing over her shoulder to see if their audience is gone. The couple is, but there are two new men there, staring at her, leering, and she's overly aware of the dress she's in, how she's not wearing her usual clothes.

"Let's go," she says, clipped, before all her lies are unravelled and Robert finds out what's being said anyway.