I get what the author was trying to do: because this antagonist had such a dense and narrow worldview, and was already shown to not respect the boundaries of someone saying no/stop, this was a way to speak bring closure to him in his jock language and on his jock terms, even though those terms were of course rigged AF with that 3rd condition.
These two chapters probably needed a bit more planning and foresight by the editor, but hopefully we can just take the overall message and move forward.