Do you really want to know why? It's because I'm a murderer. I killed a man when I was younger and nearly everyone who knows about it tends to treat me as if I'm some loose cannon about to snap and kill someone else. That's why I didn't want you to know me, because I didn't want you to learn about that. It doesn't help that I'm still a coward.

[He sighs and sees if his coffee is ready, wanting to distract himself from the conversation a bit.]

I don't think it's right to lie to someone, especially when the majority of the town knows that Ruby is very much not my type, our common interest in red aside.