Zaol couldn't speak, but when he felt his wife's hand on his arm, he felt like he was injected with renewed strength.
He approached and looked at the woman, who was looking at him with a complicated expression on her face. "I… hello, nice to meet you."
The girl looked at him with bright eyes, but also with awkwardness, reluctance, and… shame. "Uncle…" she said. "My mother talked a lot about you."
Zaol's heart dropped and his eyebrows furrowed. "I… thought that she died. I—"
The Gold Patriarch, however, could not finish his words because the Lord—for no other reason than his own amusement—cut off their conversation by hugging the woman closer to him.
He even leaned down to bite her ears, which clearly made the woman uncomfortable. It filled Zaol and his family with indignance, but they couldn't do anything about it.
