Kali was dancing with the guy.  She made polite conversation. She was even seen laughing a few times.  She would take glances over at James.  She wished her father would go away.  She wanted to be held by james, kissed by him and while her father was anywhere near that wasn't going to happen.  

Brandon looked at His and Elizabeth's father "we will start work on the details tomorrow then" he looked at Elizabeth. If his father thought cutting him off was going to affect him any it wouldn't.  He has his own money and business that he has kept from his father.  It was his insurance incase he did something to piss his father off to badly.