The food arrived and Heath watched Rod look her up and down, she seemed to notice and enjoyed it, if Heath had of looked at her that way, she would have cringed he thought to himself.
It seemed Rod had the looks that allowed him to get away with being sleazy and attracted to women, really he was no different than Heath, if anything Heath was far more romantic and gentle, but due to his looks, his attempts at communicating that he was attracted to women came off as unwanted and cringe worthy.
Heath sat back and just let Rod play with the waitress through subtle flirting, Heath gave up a long time ago trying to appeal to women. Now he would just take what he wanted, like he did with Alicia, he enjoyed her undressing for him, enjoyed her trying to impress him.
He wanted something so much different to what Rod wanted from all of this, for Heath it was a sense of belonging, a sense of being important to someone in some way, any way, even if it was being the difference between her living and dying and he was the cause of both.
Heath's ego was so skewed he didn't care anymore, about the logic of it, he didn't care that if the women didn't want him, then maybe they weren't worth having anyway.
He just wanted what he wanted and saw no other way but force.