The words hung heavy in the air. But Jax wasn't done.
"However, that was only the final act. The last domino to fall." He straightened. "What I really want to talk about is the first one."
He took a breath.
"Before you offered your body to me at the ball. Before you schemed your way into my team. Before you plotted to use me against Leon. Before any of that."
His voice steadied.
"There was a moment. A single, quiet moment where you made the decision that destroyed everything."
Silence.
"It was the moment you decided you can't win alone."
The words landed on her like stones.
"Not against Leon. Not against his mother. And not against your father. You surrendered before the war even began. And every disaster that followed was born from that surrender."
He looked at her with something colder than anger.
