Is she actively trying to piss him off? James knows that before he was bitten he wasn't anywhere near this reactive to what others said of him but if she keeps at it he might snap - or so he thinks. It's easy to see that he's not as unflappable as he likes to think with his jaw tightening and eyes going flinty at the mention of wet fur.

"Considering she's been slaughtering humans, fae and werewolves alike in my clan's territory and she decided to skip back into her own nest when we started getting pissed? Yeah, I'd say that rivalry is still going strong."

He doesn't like hearing the bite in his own words, but he can't help it.

At least she put down the fucking brick.