Aella blinked back with confusion after her father asked her the same question she has been avoiding from the very minute she saw Bane for who he truly was; a kind creature.
She wasn't a fool so she knew that her heart and entire body acted up whenever he was around or mostly, when he touched her nor was she trying to deny it.
She might have a intense irritation for his snide comments and blunt words but there was always an underlying affection whenever she yelled or threatened to punch his face and it was something she found it very hard to explain.
It definitely wasn't sympathy because Bane was nothing to be pitied nor did she want to call it something stronger...which was love.
She had never felt intimate with any man so she wouldn't know how one would feel before it could be declared that one was indeed in 'love'.
