'Sixteen's not a child when you're sixteen. When you're thirty-four and female, it's different. Not by my standards, you know I don't give a fuck. But you know you'd be judged.'

The fact that she doesn't care is one of the reasons he genuinely likes her. He waves a hand.

'Lets go with amused, and leave it at that.'

He thinks of her as a toy. And acknowledges that she probably knows it on some level, and assumes she's using him back. The fact she still gets what she wants out of it is only going to make him respect her, but it doesn't mean he'll value her. Yes, he assumes if she knew the depths of his disdain for even people he likes, she'd be turned off. But he's not going to show that. Not today, anyway.