[ No, it's not. There's another silence, as if he is mentally backspacing every childish, snippy retort that just comes so naturally to him, lately. ]

I don't trust him.

You might think you and he want the same thing, or that you think you can mitigate him, but it'll turn out not to be true, and telepathy doesn't help. He hurts people close to him. He can love people at the same time and still hurt them if he thinks it's right. As for humans--

You should listen, some time, to the way he thinks about them. The way he looks at them.