Because you don't... actually care? You're in this for Emma and you know that she cares about me so any inkling of care you think you have for me is residual to Emma, because you want Emma, or because I just told you I torture myself by using my power and some strange part of you is tingling to rescue the damsel in distress. To impress Emma. It's not about me. So no, I'm not going to introduce my boyfriend to you because there isn't any reason to.

[ she says it calmly, like she isn't actually all that upset by it. and she's not really, her entire life has been about people using her to get to someone else, it's not a surprise that it bled through into this world. she can appreciate his vocabulary and that he cares about emma, but lila doesn't trust that care actually extends past emma to her. ]