Such an obvious rejection could certainly be discerned by Sandra Cisneros.
But this woman acted as if she didn't understand and instead deliberately launched an offensive towards Victor.
It made him a bit uncomfortable.
It wasn't that he didn't like women, he just didn't want just any bad luck to come his way, especially not from such a shrewd woman. To succeed, one must absolutely keep their pants buckled.
How many men have died because of this?
Business is business, don't mix it with feelings.
Most importantly, Victor wanted to maintain this persona to attract the female journalist, Belsaria Ramsfield.
A hero narcotics officer, immensely powerful in Mexico, yet also chaste and a Nobel Peace Prize winner—how do you like that for a persona?
A man's body can sometimes be a bargaining chip.
Just don't end up like Martin Luther King, who slept with three women before he died and led an extremely chaotic private life. It's rumored he had an odd fetish—liking to eat feces?!
