"yeah I knew you didn't" - what? That's not romantic dude, though somehow I'm more ok with it here than in other stories. I think maybe because he seems to love her, and not in a purely possessive way? LIke I kinda get the feeling that he tried to seduce her/make her fall in love with him, in his own way. She's obviously not unaffected, and she did proclaim her love for him, so he might have gone the "she'll get used to the idea and stop protesting so much" a la 'the lady doeth protest too much'. Love addled his brain.