She leans back enough to look up at him, her expression open and unguarded, affection etched across every line of her face. "Because I know you," she explains, though she feels as though it should have been rather a bit obvious. "And because I trust you."

Because her family is well aware that even having a team of bodyguards surrounding her at all times would amount to nothing if she didn't trust them. Having one man by her side who she already considered a friend? Well, they did hope that it would lead her to being perhaps a little less reckless with her own safety. (She didn't feel it necessary to destroy that illusion for them just yet.)