To that, Naomi shook her head with a smile, still staring downwards. "I'm not very good with joking. And he's... always like that, always claiming that nearly every single man out there wants me, I'm just too innocent to notice, so he has to keep me safe--" She hesitated at that, grimacing as she selected a better choice of wording. "Pure. I mean, he spent four years raising me to be the kind of woman he wanted to marry, so..."

And now she glanced away. "If he's too much to deal with, I completely understand."