All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
Stop that.
What?
That.
It is unnerving, how well she can read him. All the walls he has built around him, all these protective shields that he has been building, they just collapse like feeble sandcastles when she just comes close enough to them. It infuriates him that she can do that, and that he has no control over it. She reads him like an open book, knows what he is thinking, what is bothering him, what his next move is. And it looks like she's not even trying. It seems effortless to her, and he hates it.
He hates it because for every brick wall he has, it looks like she has two, and he wants to be able to read her just like she does him. To have her feel as vulnerable as she makes him feel.
Just give me something real. Anything.