"When people focus on you... they can hurt you?" Make him do things he doesn't want to do? He's been abused.

Her heart breaks for him a little, even amid her confusion and her mild panic. "I won't hurt you. You can hear the things I don't say, the things I feel. You know that's true, don't you? Look for as long as you have to to see it. I won't hurt you, unless you're harming someone who can't protect themselves. If you're a good person... and I think you are, you won't ever have anything to fear from me."