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Your challenges arise from the first line of dialog and not how to structure the response
Davis walked towards, and stopped close to me — he was tall — he tried to look me in the eyes, but I kept dodging them as I look around trying to find a place to focus on.
Because your narrative already communicates everything that Davis's line of dialog communicates.
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The punctuation you use will depend on what you want it to show.
The punctuation will probably depend on whether or not you want to write it as a question or a statement. If your character is asking 'yeah?' as if he is not sure whether or not he wants to ask the other character to sue him, then I'd use a ? mark, but if its an exclamation, such as if he is ...
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Italics can represent emphasis, so that is your best option.
You can write it as, "Yeah? Sue me then!"
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