Leave it to her to take his open-ended statement and come back with a question. He supposed he hadn't really known what to expect from her, Jess had... decidedly mixed success with reading her in the past and now he felt like he was off the mark again.

"She wants to meet you, obviously." Jesse half-shrugged. "But it's not like I left a lot of room for discussion." He was almost thirty, he'd just had a good promotion, he was perfectly capable of supporting a wife and a family. Plus Fallon was a perfectly acceptable choice and his mother really had no say in it. "But I think that's just a formality, it's not like she's going to change my mind or anything."

He eyed her carefully as he toyed with the ring box in his hands. "I asked you first." He wasn't the one who had balked at this in the past, not that he was going to say that out loud. She'd mentioned the ring before, but he legitimately could not read the situation clearly and so he wanted her to tell him exactly what it was she wanted out of him right now.