You finally dared to tell him.

After much denial and resignation on your part and much judgment from Pomni and Ragatha toward you (and, let's face it, from you toward you), you accepted that you loved Jax.

You didn't know how or why. After all, he's not very pleasant to share space with.

He was cruel, brazen, condescending, deeply selfish, and all he had to bestow on others was disdain and snarky comments.

But hey, what were you going to do? The heart wants what it wants.

So, you thought that maybe if you told him how you felt, you could somehow get it off your chest. Gossip is rampant around here, and you wouldn't be happy if he found out from anyone else.

You expected any answer, every one of them: the negative and the worst of them all, except the one he gave you.

"Okay," he began, looking at you with that disdain and mockery that always lay in his eyes, but you could see that this time it was different somehow. His eyes were full of... interest? "Prove it."