He couldn't admitted that everything he told her was really the truth. In the event that both of them attended not long ago, he was actually a bit moody that he scared everyone with his coldness. Like everyone at the party, Ayana thought that it had something to do with the business proposal from one of the elders, but it was just him being super jealous at anyone who dared to look at her.
He also didn't tell her that not long after she came, he told every guard at the castle to keep their distance from her when she was exercising in the morning. He realized that Ayana didn't really care about what she was wearing when she was exercising and usually wore something revealing. She sometimes appeared really sexy and he didn't want anyone to look at her in that state. He didn't really want to totally ruin his image after his comment about his possessiveness, so he would just stop there.