Chapter 106: Catching Up

Hearing her question, Jash turned to look into her eyes. "Well..." he began before facing forward.

"I trained hard, of course," he added in all seriousness, only for his expression to fall in the next second.

"As if!" Ziva mocked, rolling her eyes in exasperation, not even half a second after his answer.

"You and training? That's impossible," she continued, her eyes twitching at his blatant attempt to lie.

Of course, Jash truly believed what he said.

In his perspective, hard was the right word for the training he did. He didn't care about others' thoughts on it.

'But thinking about it again, I can see where she's coming from,' he told himself, but his emotions didn't seem to listen.

"You shouldn't joke about someone's efforts," he spat through gritted teeth, somehow irritated at her disparaging demeanor.