the art makes the FL look like a wide-eyed female character from a shoujo manga, the art before made her look much more mature. also I swear I read this chapter before
@RazzyThreez In some way it could make sense. He was emotionally stunted because his father mistreated him so poorly (like his own father did him), so feelings of love would have been foreign and unfamiliar. Now that these feelings for Chloe are so strong and she feels the same he doesn't want them to disappear so has a conscious desire to monopolise something he truly cherishes.
Fortunately he's sane enough to understand that he would be hurting her by caging her so he's not gone off the deep end.