Mia had no idea, really, what she was doing. Ford seemed unduly nervous when her family was mentioned, so she thought he harbored a fair amount of fear when it came to her male relatives.
When she thought about it from his angle, she could see his point. If she'd run away alone, her family would be concerned, but know that she could survive on her own and that it was unlikely she'd encounter anything or anyone too dangerous.
Ford introduced a dynamic into the equation. She'd thought of him as a traveling companion and deterrent to any bad actors who might think of a lone woman as vulnerable, but… if her family didn't trust him, that decision on her part could have backfired.
Still, she didn't regret it in the least. She would just have to make up for it by going faster.
