[You made her care! Of course she's going to have emotions about it because that's what people do! Including ascians as he has reminded her constantly. And yet, that feeling will not leave, not for awhile.]

If you didn't, then why else did you kiss me that night? Or pull me to you when we agreed to be Bonded?

[Fondness. She regrets none of it.]

And why else would I have returned them in kind?