Because you don't like that side of you. Because it reminds you of your father. Because it is not something that is pretty, or that ought to be romanticized, or made light of. Because it is, perhaps, the most weighty sign of the predator you are, and you know you should not be a predator around or toward the people you love.

[She pauses, then tips her head all the way back to look at him, which is patently cute but also probably leaves her looking directly up his nose.]

Am I close?