[That name can set him on edge. Even if it's a confirmation of what he may have expected. But her world is so very different than his. He wonders how well she knows her Sherlock. Were they lovers? Did she break him?]

Irene Adler is dead. In fact she never existed. Only an identity Moriarty created to learn more about me.

[It isn't some desire to be honest with her, but her ego makes his flare. Calculating and cunning, trying to beat him like Moriarty tried to. Not Irene.]

But Moriarty is a man to you-- your what? Boss. You work in the same syndicate. How predictable.