Stone Circle He's a tramp

Damn. The kid was sharp, he had to give her that. He thought he'd been pretty clever in avoiding the question, but Stephie had sussed him out pretty quickly.

Part of him thought he should lie to her, or at least continue to obfuscate, but he knew that he wanted their friendship built on a foundation of trust. He might not care much about getting caught in a lie by Valette or the others, but withe Stephie, he knew he had to be up front. "I don't like him. He's whiny and full of himself," said Murdock. "But that doesn't make him a bad person. It just makes me intolerant of bullshit. Understand?" 

That wasn't exactly a shining review for Stephie's father. Murdock decided to throw the man a bone. "Besides - old men never like young men. It's a god-given law of the jungle."