Bella didn't know if she believed that, but what was she going to do, argue? That would definitely be a conversation onlookers might enjoy listening into, and that was precisely what Bella had hoped to avoid.

"Why yes, I specifically came here tonight with the intention of contracting alcohol poisoning and meeting my untimely demise," she commented sarcastically. "That seems like the only appropriate way to go out, doesn't it?" she asked, raising her glass off the table.