The mountains are still shaking from your shout. So, of course, I came running to see what was wrong. Tell me, did that female of yours finally abandon you?"
"It's you that was abandoned! Your whole family was abandoned!" Long Zhan roared instantly, his sorrow vanishing as his fierce temper flared up. He scrambled to sit up, his violet eyes glaring heavily at the older man.
If he were a hedgehog right now, every single one of his sharp spikes would be standing completely straight up in anger.
Mikal didn't blink at the outburst. He simply adjusted the sleeve of his fine robe. "The Young Lord knows very well that I do not have a female to abandon me. And in my eyes, since I raised you from a starving scrap, the Young Lord is the closest thing to a son I will ever have. So..."
